“When you allow me to.”
“I am sorry now that I did not tell you at once, but you were so positive in telling me that I should not speak even to you on that subject.”
“I might have known you would find an extenuating excuse for your behaviour.”
“I want you to help me,” Petrina cried, “I want it very much. It would be so marvellous, more marvellous than I can possibly tell you, if we could do it – together.”
She put out her hand as she spoke and slipped it into his.
“I never thought you would understand,” she went on in a low voice, “but you do and that makes me feel that everything will be all right.”
She felt the strength of the Earl’s fingers holding hers and then she added,
“You will not tell your grandmother that I – deceived her when I walked down Piccadilly with Jim? She though
