She was very still and the Duke went on,
“We have a great deal to explain to each other, but now I just want to look at you.”
Gently he turned her face up to his and sighed,
“You are even more beautiful than your picture and much more beautiful than I remember.”
“You – you have – s-seen my – picture?” Josina asked. “I-I did not – think you would – go to the – Royal Academy.”
“I took my Godmother who wanted to see a portrait that had been painted of her,” the Duke explained. “When I saw Owen’s picture of you hanging on the wall, I knew that I had found you.”
“You – you were – looking for – me?”
“Of course I was looking for you. I have searched London, I have had the Police alerted in case you had had an accident and your Nanny has been in tears ever since you left.”
“And – and you r
