Your wife can reside at Avalon Hall while you continue to divide your time between there and here, and your mother would be silenced. It is the perfect solution.’Ralph scowled at his cousin across the table. ‘But I have no desire for a wife. Why would I wish to encumber myself with one before...
‘‘Why Charles, that is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. I shall take it as a great compliment. Thank you. But why do you say it?’ He sidled up to her and slipped a warm little hand into hers. ‘Cos I love you,’ he said, his eyes serious and oh so like his father’s. ‘And be...
