“I think they presume that already. In fact by the end of the evening I was beginning to think that you were not real but had come down like manna from Heaven the moment I needed you.”
“I hope that is what you will continue to think,” Sheila said, “and now goodnight and thank you, thank you for a really wonderful evening. I enjoyed every minute of it.”
She did not wait for the Viscount to answer her, but slipped out of the door and ran down the passage towards the stairs.
Sheila was not aware that, after she had gone, the Viscount stood for at least ten minutes gazing at the door she had just disappeared through.
There was a strange expression on his face.
*
The next morning Sheila was back in her office at nine o’clock promptly.
Since she had arrived, she had thought it essential f
