CHAPTER TWOMellina then turned round to look at him in sheer astonishment.
“What do you mean?” she asked.
“What I have just said,” Lord Springdale replied. “Thinking it over, I should feel extremely lonely if I went off entirely on my own and you would feel the same.”
He paused before he continued,
“What we are both seeking is love, the real love that we have always believed in but could never find.”
Melina stared at him in surprise.
“Of course you are right,” she said. “Ever since I was old enough to read I thought that the love I read about in books was something I would find myself when I was grown up.”
“Many men must have already told you that they love you,” Lord Springdale said a little sarcastically.
Mellina shook her head.
“No, not really,” she replied. “They have paid me
