CHAPTER SIXDorina was stunned. At one moment she was in the depths of despair. The next she seemed to be transported into a new realm, full of starlight.
A number of men had kissed her cheek after they had had an enjoyable dance. But she had never been kissed on the lips before.
As the Earl's lips held hers captive, she felt something very strange within her heart, something different from anything she had ever felt before.
She wondered how such a sensation could exist without her discovering it until now. It seemed to fill all the world.
She was possessed by a strange sweet feeling, warm and exciting. She wanted this closeness to go on forever. She longed to be even closer to him, lips to lips and heart to heart.
She began to reach for him, meaning to put her arms about him.
But som
