“You are always more beautiful every time I look at you,” he declared, “and every day I fall more and more in love.”
“That – is just what I feel too,” she whispered.
“Then hurry,” he told her, “because I want to be alone with you and at any moment our host and his family may be coming back.”
Anona gave a little cry and moved away from him.
She had just reached the centre of the sitting room, which opened off the verandah when she heard Lord Selwyn call out,
“Anona – wait! Anona!”
She turned back.
“Come here. I have something to show you.”
She then walked back to him and, as he put his arm around her, she was aware that he was holding a newspaper in his hand.
It was the one that Adrian Meredith had given to him before he had left in his carriage.
Lord Selwyn held it for her so tha
