It was reaching the end of the season and she was certain of one thing – it would be at least a year before he could make another attempt to steal the pictures from the Duke’s collection.
This was somehow reassuring, and she thought that after all the only important thing she had to do was to replace the originals in their frames.
It was certainly a far less complicated operation than she had planned originally and when Lord Eustace discovered his loss there would be nothing he could do about it.
“At least I will have saved three masterpieces for the future,” Tempera murmured and added beneath her breath, “and for the Duke!”
It was the one thing she could do for him, whatever his feelings for her – the one way in which she could express her love, even though he would never know it.
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