“I shall – love that.”
“I will teach you about the other things that interest me,” the Marquis continued, “which at the moment is only you.”
He pulled her against him and kissed her until Aspasia felt that her feet were no longer on the ground and the Marquis was carrying her high into the sky, where his lips had the fire of the sun in them.
It was so perfect and so wonderful that it flashed through her mind that if she should die now she would have had everything in life that mattered and there was nothing that could be more perfect or more wonderful than love.
Then she knew that she wanted to live and to tell the Marquis how much she loved him over and over again.
She was trying in vain to find words to express the glory and the wonder that was within her when she heard the door of
