The Earl sat down beside her on the seat.
She did not start, she only knew it seemed inevitable that he should appear because she had been thinking of him.
“How did you know I would be – here?” she asked.
“I was sure that you would feel too shy to go to the Temple,” he replied, “and this is the other place where I come to dream and to find peace.”
“I did not – know that.”
“Perhaps not consciously,” he said, “but undoubtedly unconsciously. You see, we cannot avoid each other, you and I. As I anticipated, you are here.”
She glanced at him and thought that he looked younger and happier than she had expected.
He was in evening clothes and she wondered vaguely how he could have escaped so quickly from the dining room and a dinner of many courses.
Then she realised that she must have bee
