“I am not thinking of races.”
“Then what?”
“Of you, of your feelings and your emotions.”
“That is quite easy,” the Duke said. “I don’t need cards to know that you excite me and all I am concerned with at the moment is exciting you.”
He kissed her again and it was impossible to go on talking and Lily told herself that there was no point in it now. But the others were not put off so easily.
Lady Southwold insisted upon having her fortune told and so did James Bushly, while Lord Southwold continued to sing her praises as being extraordinarily accurate and astute.
When he had a chance to speak to Lily alone, he said,
“I want to use your ‘second sight’ again, but at the moment our host appears to have made a take-over bid in a big way.”
“I always have time for you, Lord Southwold.”
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