“I think you may be – wrong, my Lord.”
“No, I am rather good when it comes to remembering my Family Tree. And I can recall, although I was only a boy at the time, the excitement your mother caused when she ran away from the Duke of Avon the night before her Wedding.”
“My mother believed that – l-love was more important than anything else, in – l-life,” Gretna said with a little tremble in her voice.
“And you believe the same?”
She would have answered him, but a suspicion that perhaps he was laughing at her made her shy.
“I think my feelings – on such a subject cannot be of interest – to you.”
“As a matter of fact they interest me strangely,” he said. “But we have other things to discuss for the moment and, as your Kinsman, I have a right to demand an explanation as to why you were ma
