“Could you – really do – that?” Theresa asked.
“It is what I intend to do now that I have the right person to do it with me.”
There was a silence that made Theresa hold her breath.
Then he said,
“When I saw you with your arms around Le Roi I knew that unexpectedly and incredibly, the woman I had been seeking for so long was already in my home and waiting for me!”
“That– cannot be true – I cannot believe – it!”
“It is true.”
“And you – really knew – at that moment that you – loved me?”
She found it hard to say the words and the Marquis replied,
“I did not realise at first that what I felt was love, but behind Le Roi and you I saw, like a picture, the snowy peaks of the Himalayas and that was a sign for me that something very strange and very special was happening that could not be
