Chapter SevenLoretta felt her heart beating wildly. At the same time an irrepressible joy swept through her body, making her feel as if she came alive because he was there.
He moved slowly towards her and only when he stopped a few feet from her did he say in a strange voice,
“Am I to understand that Lady Brompton is in fact Lady Loretta Court?”
“You – did not – know?”
“I had not the slightest idea!”
Loretta looked at him in bewilderment.
“Then – how is it that – you are – here? How did you – find me?”
She was aware as she spoke that the expression on Fabian’s face was grim and he was staring at her as if he could not believe that she was real.
After a moment he answered,
“When you ran away in that extraordinary and cruel manner without saying goodbye to me, I thought I should go
