There were only a few wild daffodils in the beds and some bushes of lilac and syringa were covered in blossom.
It flashed through Delysia’s mind that the garden of The Castle was very much more beautiful.
Then she told herself that it was something that she had to forget and it was important that neither Hugo Ludgrove nor anybody else should know where she had been.
She was acutely aware that he was waiting for an answer to what he had just said.
After a moment in a small rather nervous voice she began,
“I-I don’t know you – it is far too – soon to think of anything like that.”
“Well, I am thinking of it,’ he responded in a deep voice. “I have been thinking of it day and night ever since I first saw you. To tell you the truth, Delysia, you drove me nearly mad by leaving without telli
