“As I love you,” Fiona answered.
It was like a physical pain to move away from his arms.
Then, because she felt that if she looked at him again she would be unable to leave the room, she walked very quickly to the door, opened it and went out onto the landing.
She could see the kilted figures of two footmen below in the hall and she wondered if they had noticed her go into the library and were thinking it strange that she had been there for so long.
Then because she knew that Mary-Rose would be waiting for her she ran down the passage to the child’s bedroom.
*
It was with excitement mixed with apprehension that Fiona went to the drawing room before dinner that evening.
Excitement because she would see the Duke again and had found, as he had anticipated, that it was impossible to thi
