“If Justin looks longer at you than at me, I shall scratch your eyes out, so I warn you.”
Isabel laughed as she spoke and Serena heard her singing as she went down the passage. It was unlikely that the Marquis would look at either of them with any particular interest, Serena thought and then remembering his strange words of the afternoon she felt that same sense of insecurity and embarrassment sweep over her.
Why did he say, ‘shall I make you love me?’
The sunlight had been on his face as he spoke and perhaps that had accounted for some quickening interest she had seemed to read in his expression, for the look in his grey eyes and the sudden firmness of his lips.
How good-looking he was!
She had always planned that one day when she fell in love it would be with somebody handsome and s
