“You have made me – very happy, my Lord.”
“You must not worry too much about your future, Delia,. I have a distinct feeling that it will take care of itself. It is always a mistake to be in too much of a hurry in life.”
His voice changed as he added,
“Let’s wait and see what happens and maybe we will find a solution that is totally different from anything we can think of at this particular moment.”
“What I would love to do more than anything,” she whispered, “is to go on exploring the world and talking to you about it all endlessly.”
Then before the Marquis could reply, she put up her hands.
“Don’t say anything, I know I should not have said it. It was greedy and presumptuous of me, but it just came out before I could stop it!”
The Marquis chuckled.
“I think that we are both be
