And love, although she had not recognised it, had been growing within her every moment they had been together. She had never been in love before, so how could she have known that in those strange moments when it had been hard to breathe, when he had brought the colour flowing into her cheeks or made her heart seem to beat unaccountably fast, she had felt love?
Now it was all so obvious.
She loved him as she must have loved him on their wedding night, when she had asked him not to make love to her, as he had been ready to do.
Would things have been very different, she asked herself, if she had let him behave as a normal bridegroom rather than lie at her side, neither touching nor kissing her?
She felt herself thrill at the thought of his lips and she knew now that she wished inexpressib
