“I know what you want me to say, and ordinarily I would be damned if I would have you bullying me! But because you have been through a harrowing experience I will spoil you and say, ‘Yes, I would have minded!’”
Pandora gave a little sigh. “I thought you – would.”
“If there is one thing I really dislike,” the Earl said, “it is women who say: ‘I told you so.’”
He was, however, not speaking aggressively.
“I am not saying anything,” Pandora replied “I just want you to – love Chart.”
As she spoke she realised that they could see the Castle in the valley below them.
It was breathtakingly beautiful in the moonlight, which seemed to turn the great building to silver. She gave a little exclamation.
“It is yours – all yours!”
She felt the Earl’s arm tighten as if it were an instinctive respo
