Her eyes fell before his and she would have turned her head away if he had not held her chin captive with his freehand.
“You spoke to me with love,” he said, “and I listened with love. That is why I was able to save you, my darling glorious lily.”
“With – love?”
He could hardly hear the words and yet he knew as her lips moved just what she was saying,
“I love you, my darling! I was so foolish not to have told you so before, but I did not realise myself how much you meant to me or how much I loved you until I knew that you were in danger.”
“Y-you – love me?”
He saw the radiance in her eyes and heard the lilt in her voice.
“I love you in exactly the way you want me to,” the Earl said. “I have found my Golden Fleece, Purilla, and I understand all the things you have been trying to tell
