Chapter EightThey had two days and three nights together when they touched the stars and Natasha held the moon in her arms.
They were happy as few people are privileged to be happy and it seemed as if the wonder of their love glowed like a light inside them, transforming their faces so that they were hardly recognisable even to each other.
There were no difficulties between them, no lovers’ tiffs – no moments when they felt slighted or irritated. Only the wonder of being together and a love that increased hour by hour.
There were inevitably moments when Lord Athelstan’s decision not to possess Natasha was hard to keep.
One evening after dinner was finished they were sitting in the Saloon and he was telling her of his travels and the interesting people he had met when she asked,
“There
