He had known by the expression in his eyes that his whole being and all his feelings and desires were concentrated on Quenella.
She had zoomed into such a position of importance in his life that it would be hard for him to adjust himself once again to the ordinary and the commonplace.
Because Rex had studied men and because he had an understanding of them, he knew what it meant for someone like the Prince, an unimaginative German, to be knocked off his pedestal by what he called ‘love’.
To be prepared to lay aside his dignity and forget everything except that he wanted a woman was an experience that would leave a scar for many years, if not for the rest of his life.
It was difficult, even taking into consideration Quenella’s beauty, to understand how she could have had this effect with
