Olivia stared at him in astonishment.
“How – can you – know all that?” she asked.
The Earl laughed.
“I am intelligent enough to put two and two together! Whether I was unconscious or conscious, everybody who came near me talked! It was Higgins, Bessie, Wendy, Gerald, and I think you can throw in a few birds, bees and butterflies who all added to what I had learnt already and the rest I read in your eyes.”
Olivia laughed and cried,
“It is all too ridiculous! Gerry said everything that was happening was something that either came out of a novelette or a drama in a Playhouse and he is right!”
She laughed again.
Then she said,
“As you know everything I was going to tell you, what are we going to talk about?”
“Getting married!” the Earl answered and kissed her again.
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