The Outrageous Lady by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782134862
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd
Published: 2014-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Lady Roysdon found it hard to sleep.

She lay in her soft bed and all the wonder of the evening swept over her like a tidal wave. She kept repeating to herself every word that had been said, heard every intonation of Sir Just’s voice and saw every look in his eyes.

She knew that she had stepped into a magic world that she had always known existed somewhere but had never found.

Everything else seemed to slip away and become so insignificant that it was like looking down the wrong end of a telescope.

This was love! This was what she had thought love must be like, but indeed it was far, far more wonderful.

When Sir Just kissed her, she had felt the same rapture that had been there the first time, but it was now far more intense, far more ecstatic.

She had known then that everything that had happened to her in the past was unimportant compared to this minute, this second when she was in his arms.

He kissed her until she became not only a part of him but part too of the peace and quietness of the wood and she knew that he had spoken the truth when he had said it was hers.

Words were not necessary for them to tell each other of their love. It was spoken in the touch of their lips and in the strength of his arms and, when he laid his cheek against hers, she thought that there could be no greater happiness.

It might have been minutes or it might have been hours before he said very quietly,

“You must go home, my darling.”

“I – cannot leave you.”

“You must. There was great danger that I was well aware of, in your coming here, but I wanted you so desperately that it overruled my better judgement.”

“No one will – know,” she said hesitantly.

At the same time she felt a little quiver of fear in case through her he should be involved in unforeseen danger.

He took her back into the wood, placed her wrap around her shoulders and only when they should have moved away to where her curricle was waiting did she remember to ask,

“When shall I see you – again?”

“I will think of a way,” he answered. “Then I can give you back your ring.”

“I must see you,” she said insistently.

“Do you not suppose that is what I want?” he asked. “But remember that people will think it strange if you are always driving out of Brighton at night or confined to your bed with an indisposition that the doctor has not been called to treat.”

She knew quite well who he meant by ‘people’.

There was only one person, she thought, who would be really inquisitive, fiercely, possessively so, and it was he they both had to fear.

“Let me come to you tomorrow,” she begged, but Sir Just shook his head.

“Give me time to think. It is impossible to do so when you are with me, when your beauty blinds me and the touch of your lips is like reaching Heaven itself.

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