She spoke very earnestly and for once she was not laughing or even smiling.
“I too have liked being with you, Anthea,” the Duke replied in his deep voice.
“Have you really?” Anthea asked. “You see, I have been very much afraid of boring you. You are so experienced. You have lived such a full life, while I have done nothing!”
“But you have thought and felt,” the Duke said. “I realised when we were on the battlefield and you were thinking of your father that you were capable of deep feelings.”
“I loved Papa,” Anthea answered, “but I was not only thinking of him. I was thinking of those other men who died and how their wives, their mothers and their sweethearts must have wept at their loss.”
“As I have just said, you can feel, Anthea. That is very important. Most women do not feel very d
