He turned round so that he could hold her closer to him.
“We are neither of us going to look back on the past,” he said. “I have done many things, my darling, which I have no wish to discuss with you and which I do not wish you to know about. All I want to think of is the future – our future together.”
“That is what I want too,” Anoushka answered, “and I will try every second, every minute and every hour of every day to make you happy.”
She lifted her lips to his as she spoke and, as the Duke kissed her, he felt once again the fires of love burning within them and at the same time they were sanctified by a belief in the power of God that had never been there before.
Anoushka was his, with her body, her heart and her mind. He knew as he made love to her that their souls were in a way he
