As if once again he knew what she was thinking, the Marquis said,
“Do you really believe that this is the last time we would wish to talk to each other? I have a feeling, Araminta, that your voice will haunt me.”
She did not answer and after a moment he added,
“You have given me a great deal to think about. You have surprised and bewildered and, may I also say, beguiled me in a manner which I have never experienced before?”
She glanced at him quickly and looked away again because she found that he was somehow nearer to her than she had expected.
She felt a strange feeling she could not understand run through her because he was sitting at her side and because when the carriage turned a corner her shoulders touched his.
“I shall see you again, Araminta,” he said. “That is something of
