“Is the Duca perhaps one of the reasons why you were thinking of entering a Convent?”
There was silence and once again Mark Stanton had the feeling that Cordelia was wondering whether she should trust him or not.
“I want to understand everything,” he said quietly.
“There was – another man in England before we left,” Cordelia began after a moment. “He lives near Stanton Park and I have known him for some – years.”
“He asked you to marry him?”
“Yes – and like the Duca he would not – listen to me. He called every day – he wrote to me – he spoke to – David.”
She gave a deep sigh.
“It was all very – difficult.”
“You were not in love with him?”
“No, he was horrible! There was something coarse and unpleasant about him. I cannot explain because he was very popular with both men and women,
