CHAPTER SEVENFor a moment Oleta was frozen into immobility.
Then she shut her eyes tight.
She was alone with the Duke and she could not bear to look at him.
As she heard the door close behind him and a man walking towards her, she very cautiously peeped at him.
She gave a little cry.
It was not the Duke but Mr. Durham.
She ran towards him and flung herself against him.
“You left me, you left me!” she cried incoherently, “and I was afraid.”
The Duke put his arms around her and something seemed to snap within him.
Without thinking, considering or hesitating, his lips came down on hers.
Then he was kissing her not gently but fiercely and demandingly as if he was terrified of losing her.
To Oleta it was as if the whole world had turned upside down.
Sunshine filled her body and now
