For the moment she felt that Magnus Fane was not the Demon King that Fleur had told her he was but rather a man who was battling in his own life against a great deal of opposition and was succeeding in his aims by using a force that was greater than himself.
But then he was still an ordinary man with the same feelings as anybody else and not merely an autocrat who gave orders and expected them to be obeyed.
The thoughts flashed through her mind.
Then she observed,
“I think that sometimes, when you count up how much you have gained materially, you are disappointed in what you have achieved spiritually.”
She spoke to him very quietly and then she added as if to herself,
“I am sure that living in the East has made you more conscious that matters of the spirit are more necessary to you t
