‘How could I possibly have been so lucky?’ he asked himself. ‘I am extremely grateful to Fate which has been so kind to me.’
Then, when he did not want to think about her, he remembered the girl he had been in love with and who had jilted him three days before their wedding to marry a Viscount.
He had hated her and he had also despised himself for having believed that she loved him for himself.
Now unexpectedly he found it no longer hurt him as it had before to think about her and he could possibly understand why she had jilted him.
Just as he had longed to have that special mountain that he believed contained gold, so she had longed to wear a coronet at the Opening of Parliament and she had wanted to be acclaimed as someone of social importance because her husband was titled.
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