CHAPTER NINERosina lay awake most of that night, trying to collect her thoughts.
How could this have happened? How could she have understood that she loved John only now, when it was too late?
Of course the feelings had been there for a long time. She had always felt at ease with him, but she had assumed that it was no more than friendship.
But then, wasn’t friendship also a part of love? Would it not be wonderful to marry a man knowing that he was your friend as well as your lover?
She could talk to him as she could to nobody else. Even their frequent arguments were no more than a meeting of minds, and she often enjoyed them.
Recently things had changed. In his presence she had become aware of a new excitement. Dancing with him, feeling his arms hold her, his strong body moving close
