Chapter sevenAtalanta woke very early in the morning and found that her decision was now clear in her mind. The night had taken away all her uncertainty and irresolution.
She knew as surely as if someone had written it on the wall that she could not go on living without Paul.
He was a part of her and she was a part of him, they belonged, and nothing else in the world really mattered.
She knew that her father and mother would understand when she told them how much Paul meant to her.
Her mother, after all, had done the same thing herself when she had refused to marry a rich and distinguished suitor and instead had chosen the impoverished man who held her heart.
Lady Evelyn had believed that love was more important than anything else and Atalanta knew now that there was nothing in the wo
