Because he really was extremely grateful, he raised her hand to his lips.
“You have been so wonderful already,” he told her, “and I am asking you to be even more wonderful tonight. I will try not to be more of a nuisance than I can help.”
“I cannot believe this is really happening,” Lanthia sighed.
He knew from the way she spoke that it really did seem to her like something out of a book or a scene from a play.
“I am so very fortunate, Lanthia, to have found you. Now I must hurry as I need to write a note to the Duke and leave it on the way to my house.”
He picked up his hat and walked towards the door.
“Until ten minutes to eight,” he bowed, “and try to look even more beautiful than you do at the moment.”
It was a compliment he would have made to any of the beauties with whom he wa
