Calina sat up and looked at him with surprise.
“Make – amends?” she enquired.
The Marquis smiled.
“You have told me that you love me and I think you know by now that I love you.”
Calina could not take her eyes from him nor could she say anything more.
Then suddenly as if he could not prevent himself, he pulled her close to him and his lips found hers again.
He kissed her very gently at first.
Then it was more demandingly until she felt as if once again he was carrying her up into the sky.
‘I love you! I love you!’ she wanted to shout out, but it was impossible when he held her lips captive.
Only when he raised his head, did she once again turn to hide her face in his shoulder.
“I love you,” the Marquis said, “and I think, my darling, that you love me. Therefore the sooner we ca
