“Is – is it – really over and I can – be your w-wife?”
“As quickly as it is possible!” the Duke replied. “After that, my darling, you will be mine and nothing like this shall ever happen to you again.”
Then, as if he was anxious that he might have lost her, he was kissing her demandingly, passionately and fiercely, as if only love could sweep away the terror that she had been through.
*
Quite a long time later, when they were sure that the Police would have left the villa with the dead bodies, they went to find Lady Sinclair.
“You are – all right, Grandmama?” Giovanna asked as they entered her room to find her sitting serenely in the same chair where they had left her.
“Perfectly all right, my dearest,” Lady Sinclair said, smiling, “and the Chief of Police has told me how splendid yo
