Chapter Ten
Miss Renwick, I must apologize again. I am rather ashamed, actually, to have brought you to see this temple. It was… well, inappropriate.”
“Oh no, Mr. Ritchie, think no more about it.”
Julian was sitting with Miss Renwick on a bench in the shade of a tree behind the guesthouse. The garden around them was filled with large colorful flowers artistically arranged into formal beds.
Julian had been rather loath to break the gentle silence that surrounded them. But he still felt uncertain about the wisdom of this outing. It was true that he was trying to make her fall in love with him, but he would never do anything to hurt her.
Miss Renwick suddenly began to giggle. It was soft at first, but then it grew until her shoulders were shaking with it.
Julian couldn’t imagine what s
