How long their kiss lasted it was impossible to determine.
The Prince raised his head and Angelina, looking up at him, felt as if they had both ceased to exist as human beings and had become transfigured into Gods.
For one moment they were still and then, because there were no words to express what they felt, they walked quietly hand-in-hand back to the carriage.
As Alexis drove on, their hands were clasped and, only when they came down Grosvenor Crescent and reached the Square, turning not towards the front of the house but to the mews at the back, did the Prince say in a voice that was curiously unlike his own,
“If I don’t see you before tomorrow evening, I will be waiting for you at the same time as tonight.”
The carriage came to a standstill outside the garden door.
The Prince dr
