Jeanne’s personal maid had taken over the duty of serving the dinner while Sarah and Sean remained at the cottage with Stefan. Maggie had hoped to catch Sarah alone in the kitchen. She wondered what Stefan had been told or if he had simply accepted that he’d been caught in the act and this was the result. Had he asked for her? Was he at all distressed at this turn of events, or would he simply now turn the focus of his desperation on Sarah and Sean? Well, so be it. Upon awakening that very morning, hadn’t she already been thinking it would be best to return to their former status of patient and nurse? It was a relief to have her father decide she should no longer attend the man, wasn’t it? Isn’t this what she had wanted from the beginning? And yet Stefan’s eyes and the touch of his lips on her cheek haunted her every waking moment. She forced her attention back to the gathering at the dining table. The minister’s wife was showing Jeanne a small framed photograph of her sister’s child.
