She was very feminine and had the sophisticated elegance and self-assurance that the Earl would require in his wife.
He had said that he had no desire to be married, but that had obviously been merely an excuse for asking her to become his mistress – a mistress whom he would have discarded very quickly because he would have found her dull and uninteresting beside someone like Lady Imogen.
Celesta remembered that odd unaccountable feeling the Earl had aroused in her when he had kissed her.
It was a feeling that she had been unable to explain, but because of it she had wanted him to go on kissing her and not to stop.
Then, through the window, she saw Lord Crawthorne drive away and, as she saw Giles walking back to the cottage, she knew like a flash of lightning sweeping through her, like
