CHAPTER FOURTEENLydia’s love for Gerald was a fire burning through her, consuming every thought and leaving her emotions as steel tried by the flames, steadfast, strong and without a flaw.
It would have been impossible for her to question her love, she knew it was there and she was of it, all of it.
Yet, while she could not think of herself, she could think of him and by looking at him with new eyes, with a vision vouchsafed because of the glory that was in her, she saw what she must do and what was the right action for her to take for his sake.
She had to resist the temptation to give herself to Gerald, to forget the world, his wife, his stepdaughter and all that stood between them.
Never for one moment did she seriously consider it.
Love such as she felt could come only from God Him
