“There is – nothing,” she answered, “you are the earth, the sky, the sea! You are my world – there is nothing in it but you!”
He made a little sound of triumph and then he was kissing her again with slow deliberate kisses which took her soul into his keeping –
*
She argued with him again during the evening, but it was half-hearted.
Lord Castleford was calm and determined with the air of a man who has made a monumental decision and no longer allows even the smallest detail of it to concern him.
He merely reiterated that when they arrived in Athens he would call on the King as would be expected, then he would write immediately to London, sending his resignation to Lord Palmerston and saying that he would merely wait in Athens until another Minister could be sent to replace him.
“I owe
