She was certain that she had done the right thing in running away without telling him where she was going or who she was.
Although it was an agony to think that there were only a few hours’ fast driving between them, she could not have borne the knowledge that the Earl might believe that he must behave in an honourable manner and offer her marriage.
It was not just marriage she wanted from him, but something very different and to have trapped him, for that was what it would have amounted to, into losing his freedom would, she told herself with a wry smile, have been definitely ‘unsporting’.
‘He will forget me – of course he will forget me,’ she kept saying to herself, ‘but I will never, never forget him!’
She faced the fact that she would never love anybody else and therefore it was un
