Lucky in Love by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788672276
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd
Published: 2019-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Lord Harleston opened his eyes and realised that the light in the room came not from the oil lamp, which had gone out, but because the shutters over the window fitted badly.

The yellow lines of sunlight that percolated into the room induced a golden glow and he turned his head to look at Nelda with her head on the pillow beside him.

She looked very lovely, very young and very innocent and, he thought with a twist of his lips, that with his reputation no one, least of all Robert, would believe that he had spent the night beside a beautiful woman without touching her.

He found himself wondering what Nelda would do if he kissed her and decided that she would not be as much shocked as astonished.

He had not missed the fact that she treated him as somebody authoritative and elderly. He might have been her uncle or her father, but in no way as a young man whom she would think of as a suitor.

It was a sobering thought that he appeared so old to somebody so young, but he knew that he had never met anyone like Nelda.

Not that he had ever had anything to do with young girls, but those he had seen occasionally in the houses of his hostesses he had always thought were somewhat gauche and ungainly and certainly painfully shy.

He had expected Nelda to be uncouth and tainted by the life that her father led, but she had surprised him again and again with everything she said and did until he was left completely astounded by her bravery and her self-control.

He knew as she lay there, looking so frail and insubstantial with her eyes closed that it was impossible to imagine any woman of his acquaintance behaving in such an exemplary manner or showing bravery, which was actually more than he would have expected from a man of his own age.

Looking back over what Nelda had experienced in the last five days, he thought that no one would believe it had happened and certainly he himself found it hard to credit that they had both passed unscathed through such traumatic events.

This brought to his attention the fact that the bandage on his arm was uncomfortable and he knew too that he wanted to wash before Nelda was awake.

Carefully, so as not to disturb her, he slipped from the bed and walked silently across the floor on his stockinged feet into the other room.

This also was alight with the sunshine percolating through the shutters and, having closed the bedroom door very softly, he opened first the front door and then pulled back the shutters on the windows so that sunshine and fresh air flooded in.

It was still very early with a faint haze over the Plains, but he was sure that Waldo and his father’s servants would soon arrive in search of them.

What was important was that they should not think that he and Nelda had been killed with the rest of the party, so he must keep a watch out for anyone passing the house.

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