He looked at her for a long moment before he said,
“If it upset you, forget what happened. Just remember that because I was audacious enough, if that is the right word, to take you into my bedroom, it was instrumental in saving my life for, if you had not been there, I should at this moment be lying dead.”
“No one will – ever know – that,” Anthea said as if she consoled herself.
“Except you and, of course, me,” the Marquis agreed quietly. “So what can we do about it, Anthea?”
“Nothing,” Anthea said quickly, “and as long as Harry does not know and he can stay here as your manager, everything is perfect.”
“Perhaps from your point of view, but not from mine,” the Marquis said. “I always pay my debts and I am deeply and irrevocably in your debt, Anthea.”
“But those two people may – still
