“I can understand your feeling like that, because it is what I feel myself. Loving Papa and losing him was so agonising that in a way I wished I had not loved him so much.”
She looked up at Lord Cheriton and looked away again as she went on,
“You will think it is foolish of me to love this house, since because I love it so much I am vulnerable. Perhaps I should go away and live somewhere else, simply because every day I remain here it will hurt me more when I have to leave.”
She spoke seriously, then she gave a little laugh.
“I am not expressing myself at all well and you will think I am very foolish.”
“I think you have expressed yourself extremely well and you are not in the least foolish. I am only surprised, Wivina, that you should be so perceptive.”
“About – you?”
“About me, and
