“I adore you,” he said. “You always say the things I want to hear, the things I am striving to put into words for myself. My adorable wife, it is wonderful being married to you, because we not only have so much loving to do together but also so much thinking.”
Lydia laughed.
“I am sure that no newly marrieds have ever said that to each other before!”
“Well, I have said it now,” the Earl remarked, “and it is true. I have never before known a woman I could think with!”
“Then please go on thinking with me,” Lydia pleaded, “because it is very exciting – although not quite as wonderful as your kisses!”
She lifted her mouth to him as she spoke and he looked down at her for a long moment before he said,
“We said last night that we have found the Island of Love. I think, my darling, that whe
