“Then you will show me the horses?”
“As many as you want to see!”
“Thank you,” Mena said, “and thank you, more than I can – possibly say, for a – wonderful and most – delightful evening.”
“You were not disappointed?”
She laughed.
“How could I be? And I think your ‘dream house’ is just as I describe it – and full of – happiness.” She was going to say ‘love’ and then quickly changed the last word.
“That is what I want it to be,” Lindon declared.
He dismounted and lifted Mena down from her mount.
He did not, however, take his arms from her as her feet touched the ground.
“I have kept my promise,” he said in a deep voice, “and behaved as you wished me to and I hope when you think of this evening you will commend me for my self-control in not kissing you goodnight.”
She stiffened.
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