She had no idea, he felt, that a man could desire a woman without love or to love someone, as he had never been able to, with his heart and his soul.
Then the next evening, when they were looking at the stars, he asked her,
“Do you think that your cousin will be happy for ever with the man she has married?”
“She loves him completely and absolutely.”
“How can you be sure of that?”
“Because it is the way that my Mama loved Papa,” Silva replied. “Her whole life centred on him and she had no real interests apart from him.”
“Do you think he found that dull?” he questioned.
Silva shook her head.
“He felt the same. It is difficult to put into words, but it was as if they were one person instead of two. They thought the same, they felt the same and when they were together nothing else was
