And yet she could not help remembering that her father had said that the very moment he had seen her mother he had known that she was the one woman in his life that he would ever love and the only woman he wanted as his wife.
“It was as if a light was shining round her,” he had said reflectively. “She looked very beautiful, but it was something more than that, an aura which came from her heart or perhaps her soul.”
“And Mama felt the same about you, Papa?” Laetitia asked.
“We were very very fortunate,” Prince Paul replied. “We found each other and after some opposition, by the mercy of God, we were able to marry. It is what I pray will happen to you, my dearest, in the future.”
When her father had talked like that, Laetitia had thought it was quite possible.
However, now on her bed, w
