“I must let you sleep,” he said as if he spoke to himself, “Oh, my darling, I want you! I need you! Thank God we have not to wait very much longer!”
He kissed her again, but gently and then he climbed into his own bed beside hers and turned to look at her for a long moment before he blew out the candle.
“I am – praying that I shall always make you as – happy as you are – now,” Chandra whispered.
“And I am praying I will make you very much happier once you are my wife,” he answered, “as happy as I shall be because you are mine, completely and absolutely mine and nobody shall ever take you from me!”
*
Chandra and Lord Frome arrived in Bairagnia a little earlier than they had expected because the route was downhill and, as Chandra remembered, much easier than at any other part of the roa
