The Marquis had not thought about this before.
“I wonder if that is a psychological fact,” he quizzed, “or just part of your imagination?”
“It is a psychological fact. I was reading a book the other day by an extremely well-known scientist who said how important it was that we appreciate this point when we are dealing with children.”
She paused and then added slowly,
“And of course feeding our own minds with what makes us happy and not with what can distress or trouble us.”
The Marquis tried to query her statement, but he knew at the end it was another battle that Shana had won.
What astonished him when they reached Gibraltar was that she was not interested in the kind of present he was anxious to give her. He had never been there before without the woman who was accompanying him dem
