“I can – hardly believe – it!” Aleda cried, “And so have you – accepted?”
“I have more or less committed myself,” Doran replied, “but I really want to do nothing but make love to you.”
“It is a – great honour,” Aleda said, “and I – suppose it is because you – know so much about the – East where you have – worked.”
“Of course,” Doran nodded. “At the same time I had never expected for one moment that what I had done in China would result, my precious little wife, in you being kidnapped.”
“I could not – believe that it was happening in – England!” Aleda said, “And it was very – very – frightening.”
“I know it was, my darling,” he answered, “but everything is settled now and it will never happen again.”
“D-did you – have to give the Chinese man a – great deal of money for me?” Aleda aske
