Chapter FiveTrina awoke in the morning to ruminate,
‘How dare he kiss me!’
Then because she could not help it, she whispered to herself,
‘It was wonderful!’
Although quite a number of young men had tried to kiss her in Rome, she had kept them at arms’ length and decided firmly in her own mind that she would never be kissed on the lips until she was in love.
The Marquis had taken her by surprise and she thought that ordinarily she would have not only struggled against him but been extremely angry at his impertinence.
But she could not forget the wonder that he had evoked in her and the way he made her feel as if he carried her towards the stars and that with his lips he drew her heart from her body and she became an integral part of him.
‘I shall never see him again,’ she told hersel
