She felt as if they were part of the sunset outside, the pink cliffs, the wonder of the valley and she felt too as if he drew her very heart from between her lips and made it his. He raised his head to look down at her shining eyes and trembling mouth and now she could only whisper the words that came irresistibly to her lips,
“I love – you! I love – you!”
“As I love you,” Tyrone Strome answered. “Do you really imagine, my darling, that I would let you look after anyone else’s children except mine?”
“I thought you meant to – send me away.”
“I knew long before I brought you here that you belonged to me and there could be no returning to the life you lived before we met each other.”
“B-but you h-hated me, despised me and were so – cruel.”
“That was because I knew that you were not real
