When the Earl had gone, Thelma realised that he had actually kissed her.
She lay on her bed gazing at the stars outside in the sky, thinking that it was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened to her.
She had known before that her whole body vibrated towards him.
When she had prayed for him in the Chapel, it had been a prayer that came from the very depths of her heart.
But somehow until this very moment she had not thought of him as a man who would be attracted to her and who would love her.
Now she knew that she wanted more than anything in the whole world to have the Earl’s love.
Of course she loved him!
How could she not do so when he was so different from any other man she had ever met and so attractive that he was like a Greek God?
Apart from that there was something
