She reached the bed and knelt down beside him. “I love you! And I want you to love Chart. I ask nothing for myself except that I may stay here, where I belong, because I know that one day Chart will give you happiness if only you will let it.”
She spoke with such intensity that tears came into her eyes.
But the Earl did not move and she thought in desperation that he could not hear her and time was ticking on so that soon her uncle would come and take her away.
She knew that if he insisted on her returning with him there was really nothing she could do but obey, for it was very doubtful that he would listen to Dr. Graham, whom he would despise as an unimportant country doctor.
‘Once I am back at the Palace, Norvin will forget about me,’ she thought, ‘and when he returns to London there
