“I adore you!” he sighed. “No other woman could express herself in the same way as you do and I promise you that we shall be very very happy together.”
“T-Together?” Salrina asked.
“That is something we will talk about tomorrow morning. It’s too late now and I know how tired you must be. What you have been through has, of course, been very exhausting.”
He looked down at her before he said in a very different tone,
“I want you – God knows I want you! But I think for the first time in my life, I am thinking of someone else rather than myself.”
Salrina looked puzzled.
“I-I don’t understand what you are – saying.”
“I know it’s true!” the Earl said as if he was suddenly aware of the fact. “That is another thing that is so unusual and so completely and absolutely captivating about you.”
