He smiled as he said,
“It is the Paradise that has always escaped me, until, when you came into the salon the first day of your arrival, I knew that I had found you and nothing else was of any consequence.
“You – cannot mean what – you are – saying,” Loretta murmured.
Then, as Fabian looked into her eyes, she knew that he was speaking from his heart and that every word he had said to her was utterly sincere.
“I know what you are thinking,” he said softly, “but I also know that, just as you love me, my precious little Goddess, explanations between us are quite unnecessary. I will take you away. I will protect you and love you for the rest of our lives. When we die, there will be other lives because it is impossible now for us ever to lose each other again.”
Because she was unable to sp
