“Oh, don’t talk about my courage,” Carina said. “I feel ashamed and rather foolish. I have tried to do so much, and achieved – well, nothing.”
Lord Lynche did not answer and after a moment Carina asked in a low voice,
“If you leave The Castle, what will happen to Dipa and me?”
“You will come with me wherever I go,” he answered. “Do you think that I can be without you, without seeing you and without knowing that you are there?”
She felt the flames rise within her at his words and at the passion in his voice.
“Could we bear it?” she asked. “Knowing that we cannot express our love – for reasons that you will not tell me?”
“I am not certain that I could bear it,” he answered, “day after day, year after year, seeing you and yet being unable to touch you.”
“I love you,” she whispered. “Is
