She felt her whole body respond to him so that her heart was beating in time with his heart and her mind was part of his.
‘I love you!’ she wanted to shout, but it was quite unnecessary.
Only a love so strong, so omnipotent, so majestic and so divine could have united them so completely and so irrevocably.
At last, after time had stood still, the Duke raised his head.
“My precious, my darling!” he exclaimed, his voice deep and unsteady. “Do you still love me?”
“I intended to – ask you the same – question,” Fiona whispered.
“You know the answer,” the Duke replied, “but if you thought I was tardy in coming to you, please believe me that it was really impossible for me to get away until now.”
“I – tried to – understand, but – I wanted you.”
“Just as I wanted you!”
Now he was kissing
