He had thought perhaps optimistically that she had begun to like him, but now he knew he was back to the beginning again, trying to make her trust him, trying to make her believe that he was a friend and not an enemy.
He knew the answers and yet found the situation extremely frustrating and at the same time worrying.
How could they go on playing games?
He could understand that at first she shrank from him in a natural reaction to a hasty marriage. But how could he ever make her accept him in his rightful position as her husband and – lover?
The last word, as it came into his mind, seemed almost to hit him between the eyes.
He knew that if he was honest, he already desired Magnolia as a woman.
He would, in fact, have been blind and deaf if he had not been beguiled by her beauty and ha
