“I was in love! Wildly, crazily, helplessly in love! But how could I have guessed or even imagined that you would ever love me?”
Because she had to know, Delysia quizzed him,
“What did you feel when – your sister told you that Fleur had – married Tim?”
“After the first surprise there was an irrepressible gladness that it was not you,” Magnus Fane replied. “It was not difficult for me to guess, even before my sister had finished telling me what had happened and who you were, but I did not anticipate that you would run away or that I would go nearly mad in case anything terrible should happen to you on your way to London.”
“You – know that was where I had – gone?”
“Not until luncheon was announced when I learnt that you were not in The Castle,” he said. “It was then that my servants inf
