Chapter ThreeChoosing his words carefully, Warren said again,
“I arrived back in Paris tonight having been in Africa for nearly ten months, during which time I have had no letters and seen no English newspapers.”
He realised that Nadia was listening intently to what he was saying and he continued,
“The reason I went to Africa was that a woman to whom I was secretly engaged changed her mind because she found a man in a more advantageous Social position than myself, and decided that a title was more important than love.”
He was trying to speak in the same calm voice he had used all the evening, but now he remembered all he had felt when Magnolia had told him she preferred Raymond.
He was also furious at the deceitfulness with which she was trying to come back into his life, and this cha
