Chapter SevenFor a moment Lydia felt that she could not have heard what he said correctly.
Then she asked in a halting little voice,
“D-did you say we – were to be – married?”
“Yes, darling,” he answered. “We are going to be married tonight so that there can be no arguments afterwards that you do not belong to me.”
“But – Heloise – ?”
“Heloise broke our engagement in front of your father and the Wodehouses,” the Earl said. “I accepted it, and, as far as I am concerned, the whole episode is finished.”
There was a hard note in his voice, which instinctively made Lydia move nearer to him.
Then, as she stared up at him, her eyes wide and a little frightened, he said,
“Leave it all to me. Everything is arranged and all you have to remember is that I love you!”
As he spoke, she felt as
