For a moment she was too sleepy to remember why she should feel so rapturous until the memory of the night before swept over her like a shaft of sunlight.
Then, as she closed her eyes again, she could feel the Marquis’s arms around her and his lips on hers.
She had never realised that a kiss could make her feel as if the world was left behind and she was swept up into the sky.
She could feel herself vibrate to the touch of the Marquis’s mouth, to his arms holding her and to the note in his deep voice that made her feel shy.
‘I love him and love is more wonderful and more marvellous than I had any idea it could be,’ Linetta told herself.
She could understand for the first time why her mother had found it impossible to talk about her father without crying.
She knew now that if she lost
