CHAPTER SEVENThe Duke awoke with an irrepressible feeling of happiness.
He lay for a moment with his eyes closed, thinking that never in his life had he felt not only so happy but so satisfied and complete.
Then he opened his eyes and was aware that the curtains were drawn back, presumably he had not heard his valet coming to call him and he must have left him to sleep on.
It was not surprising because it was only when the stars were fading in the sky and the moon was a pale shadow of itself that he and Elfa had come back to the house.
It had been an agony to tear themselves away from the enchantment of the pool and to know that they must leave their secret world for reality.
Elfa had, as they turned to go back through the wood and into the garden, looked up at him with such an expres
