CHAPTER FIVEHow she passed the rest of the afternoon Cornelia had no idea.
She was only aware that every nerve in her body was taut and tense and waiting for the Duke’s return.
She would see him again!
She told herself that this time she would not be tongue-tied and foolish in his presence but would talk to him, tell him of her likes and dislikes, of her life in the country and would ask him in return to tell her about himself.
There was so much she wanted to know. She felt that everything she learnt about him would be like a precious treasure that she would value and cherish because it was his.
‘I am in love,’ she repeated the words to herself a hundred times and then felt that she wanted to laugh and cry both at the same time.
‘In love’ the words held a magic that was all their own
