Driving home behind a pair of exceptionally fine horses the Duc asked,
“Have you enjoyed your hours of sightseeing?”
“It was wonderful!” Yursa said. “Like The Château, it was exactly what I wanted to find in Burgundy.”
“So you have not been disappointed?”
“How could I be when you have been so kind?” she replied.
There was a twist to the Duc’s lips as he commented,
“That is not an adjective which is usually applied to me.”
“Why not?”
“Because many people say I am unkind.”
He was thinking as he spoke of the women he had left because they bored him.
They were always railing against his cruelty, his unkindness, his selfishness and his lack of feeling.
Again, because she could follow his thoughts, although fortunately she did not understand exactly what had happened between him and t
