“I am so glad, so very – very glad,” Lalita said. “Just suppose when we met you had been – married to – somebody else?”
She was thinking as she spoke of Lady Irene and Lord Heywood said sharply,
“Forget her! She shall not spoil our lives and I will not allow her to hurt you.”
“Nothing can – hurt me unless you – wish to leave – or send me – away.”
She said the last words in a voice that told Lord Heywood that she was afraid it might happen.
“That is what I should do,” he said, but not very positively
"Nothing – nothing in the world could make me – leave you – now,” Lalita asserted. “All I want is to stay here with you in The Abbey – and be happy for ever and ever – just like the Fairy stories.”
“My precious!”
Lord Heywood turned to her again and now in the light of the stars he coul
