CHAPTER SIXUrsa cried for a long time.
Then she blew out the candles and told herself that she must go to sleep.
It was impossible, however, not to keep thinking of how wonderful the Marquis’s kiss had been.
She knew that it was something she would never have again.
Now she must persuade the Dowager to go back to Brackley Park tomorrow.
‘I will tell her,’ she thought, ‘that Arthur will be annoyed if I am not there when he returns.’
At the same time every nerve in her body screamed at the idea of leaving Charnwood Court and the Marquis.
“I love – him! I – love – him!” she told herself in the darkness.
The tears flooded into her eyes.
Again she knew that she must go to sleep, since otherwise she would not look herself in the morning.
She tried to imagine what she would do or what s
