He paused before he added,
“I thought in some way it would make me forget you for a short while if I was riding in the races.”
“You wanted to forget me?” Sheila asked him.
“It was something I could never do,” he replied. “I knew when you were clever enough to snatch Rupert out of the hands of the c******n that you were so very different from any woman I have met before. It was just impossible for me to find any woman attractive when I compared them with you.”
Sheila gave a little gasp.
She was thinking of the Countess as she asked him,
“Is that really true?”
“I swear to you before God,” he answered, “I have lain awake every night wanting you, yearning for you and knowing that in some strange way I could not understand I had found the real love that has always eluded me.”
His arms t
