“He is safe!”
The words came to her lips as she felt once again that he was holding her against him and she could feel his heart beating as he ran with her to safety.
She had liked the strength of his arms and the feeling of security he gave her even though she had been afraid and she knew it was something she did not want to lose.
Then, as next door she heard the Duke laugh, she knew that she loved him!
It was so astonishing, so unexpected that, as the feeling crept over her, for a moment she stiffened thinking it must be untrue.
Then she realised it was what she had felt in New York when the Englishman had danced with her and she had wanted to see him again, but was now multiplied and intensified until it invaded her whole body from the tips of her toes to the top of her head.
‘I –
