Dennis Wheatley - Duke De Richleau 07 - Plot & Excerpts
Then he kissed it. For a moment he felt rather foolish, as it was a long time since he had done that to a letter from a woman. Nevertheless, he kissed it again and sat for some time dreamily making mental pictures of Ilona as he had seen her: at Dorchester House; on the boat in the storm; in her sky-blue uniform at the Horse Show; and, lastly, at the Czernins’ ball. That had been eight days ago. In the interim his mind had been so fully occupied with his mission that he had very nearly, but not quite, succeeded in keeping her image out of it. After her dismissal of him he had made a great effort to do so, and had endeavoured to persuade himself that he was well out of trouble. But that thought had been mainly engendered by anxiety lest a clandestine love affair with an Archduchess should lead to his being arrested, or ordered to leave Vienna, and so seriously jeopardize the success of his secret work. With a slow smile he savoured the thought that he need no longer worry himself on that score.
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