203. Love Wins by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788670913
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd
Published: 2018-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Lord Heywood, as he drove down the drive, thought that The Abbey was looking unusually beautiful despite the fact that the sky was overcast and threatening.

It had been a hot day with little air and he had felt cooler when driving his horses very fast than when he had been forced to go more slowly.

Now because he was home he felt as if the sun had come out and, although he knew that it was regrettably far from reality, The Abbey seemed to stand for security and safety. Over the last miles, as if they knew that their own stables were just ahead of them, Conqueror and his companion had moved faster without any encouragement from their driver.

They swept in style round the gravel courtyard to come to a standstill at the bottom of the steps.

As they did so, Carter came hurrying down them and, as he ran to the horses’ heads, he called out,

“Welcome back, my Lord.”

Lord Heywood put down the reins to step from the curricle, thinking as he did so that it was strange that there was no sign of Lalita.

With a feeling that struck him quite unawares he had a sudden fear that, just as she had arrived unannounced at The Abbey, she had left in the same way.

He would have asked Carter where she was, but he was already walking the horses towards the stables.

Then, as Lord Heywood started to climb the steps, there was a cry from the top of them and Lalita came dashing down towards him almost as if she was carried on wings.

She met him halfway and, with an exclamation of joy that seemed to lilt on the air, she flung her arms around him, hugging him as a child might have done and kissed his cheek.

“You are back!” she cried. “I was so afraid that you would be delayed and we would wait for you in vain.”

She took her arms from around him to walk beside him into the hall, slipping her hand in his as she did so.

“What happened?” she asked. “I must know.”

There was something so young and eager in the way she spoke that, as Lord Heywood with his free hand put his hat down on the table, he felt, even though he had nothing very new or encouraging to relate, that it was somehow good news.

“Come and tell me all about it,” Lalita suggested before he could speak. “I have everything ready for you in the writing room.”

Still holding his hand, she pulled him towards it and, as he entered the room, Lord Heywood saw that there were vases of flowers on the tables and desk, a bottle of wine in an ice bucket and a large pitcher that he had not seen before.

Lalita released his hand and went to the table.

“You must be thirsty,” she said. “It has been very hot today and I am sure the roads were dusty.”

The way she spoke told Lord Heywood that she had something to quench his thirst and he smiled as he replied,

“You are quite right, I am thirsty.

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