I smiled, for, as I have already said, I was very young and still naïve, but I was about to learn the duplicity of that man I trusted more than anybody else on earth. The scheming Willie Kemp!
“I know enough.” I stopped his words by half rising from the bed and pressing a finger to his lips. “I know that I love you and that we are handfasted.”
He removed my finger; rather roughly, I thought and eased me back under the covers. The touch of his hands thrilled me. “There are other people involved, Miss Lamont, so things are not quite as simple as you would wish.”
“I only wish you,” I said.
Mr. Kemp sighed, shook his head and gave me the saddest of all smiles. He rose abruptly and left the room, reappearing a few minutes later with a whole host at his tail. There was Aunt Elspeth, and Loui
