Sir Peter must have been in Green Park watching Waterford House night after night.
How, she wondered, could she ever have thought the man attractive? How had he managed to arouse her so profoundly?
Valeria had no answer to these questions. She could only blame herself for being so misled by him.
She suddenly felt very humble.
She remembered her initial dislike, hatred even, for Lord Waterford. That was because he made her feel less than the woman she was convinced she was.
Now she was beginning to feel deflated because she had overestimated her own worth.
She had been convinced that Sir Peter loved her and would ask her to marry him. Instead he had professed that without any money she was nothing more than a desirable object for his bed!
The fact that he had stirred her response
