There was something so solemn in the way he spoke and yet so moving that Selina felt the tears come into her eyes.
“I shall – pray that I shall be as you – want me to be,” she said. “You know that I am very – ignorant about many things and – you must be patient with me.”
“You are very young,” Quintus Tiverton said, “and I adore both your innocence and your ignorance. There are so many things I want to teach you, my darling one, and to do so will be an experience I have never had before.”
Selina looked up at him, not understanding, and he went on,
“You know, because I have told you, that I have found amusement always with sophisticated women, those who have made Paris the gayest and most talked-about City in the world.”
“That is what makes me so – afraid,” Selina whispered.
Quintus sm
