Noella smiled at him and he thought it was impossible for any woman to look more radiant.
Then the door closed behind him and Noella lay back against the pillows saying over and over again,
“Thank You, God, thank You!”
*
The Earl and Noella travelled South in considerable comfort and luxury that seemed very different from the way that she had come North with Jasper.
Now the Earl’s large and very modern travelling carriage was drawn by six horses.
When they changed them at Posting inns, it was for a team of his own which had gone ahead to be waiting for them after they had spent a comfortable night.
The rooms may not have been luxurious, but the Earl travelled with his own linen, his own bedside rugs, his own wine and most of the food he required.
One of the outriders, and there wer
