She felt that her love for him was pouring towards him just like the rays of the sun.
‘I love – him! I – love him!’ she whispered in her heart. ‘Please God make him – love me.’
The Earl raised Valencia’s hand to his lips.
“You have saved me for the third and last time,” he said very quietly, “and later I will tell you how grateful I am.”
To Valencia’s surprise they went back to her home.
They walked down the underground passage, her father guiding them with a lantern, which he had collected from the Vestry.
They entered the house to find Nanny waiting to put her arms around Valencia and kiss her.
The old woman was very near to tears and Valencia said to her,
“You should have been with us in the Chapel, Nanny.”
“I had plenty to do here,” Nanny replied, “and you look ever so lovely,
