Chapter Seven“Goodbye, dearest Amelie. I cannot thank you enough for all – you have done for me.”
“I shall miss you terribly,” Amelie replied, “as William will miss Ian, but we know how happy you both will be.”
As the two women embraced inside the railway carriage and William Sleeman, standing on the platform, held out his hand to Ian Hadleigh.
“There is no need for me to tell you to take care of Brucena,” he said, “and, although things will not be the same here without you, I know that you have a great future ahead of you.”
“If I have, I owe it all to you,” Ian replied, “and may I say in all sincerity that I have never enjoyed anything more than the years we have been together.”
“At least we have a record of success behind us,” William Sleeman replied. “There is little to do now exce
