No Time For Love (Bantam Series No. 40) - Plot & Excerpts
She hurried up it and into her bed-room, and closed the door.For the first time since she had been at the Villa she did not pull back the curtains to look out over the sea at the lights of Naples twinkling in the distance or those which glowed round the bay wherever there was a fishing-village or a house.Instead she undressed and got into bed.Every night since she had come to the Villa she had been thrilled by the comfort and luxury of her bed-room.It not only had a magnificent view from the balcony from where she could look out in the day-time, but it also was far more luxurious than anything she had ever known in her life before.There was a bathroom adjoining where the bath was sunk in the floor as had been the custom in Roman times.It was very American, she knew, to have a bathroom attached to every main bed-room in the house and when she sat in her marble bath with its colourful tiles copied from those which must have decorated the original Villa, she felt herself carried back in time.She would pretend she was the wife of a Roman Senator, or perhaps his daughter, and that waiting outside was all the pomp and glitter which had been characteristic of the Romans wherever they were.But tonight all Larina wanted was to creep into bed and in the darkness tell herself that the sooner she went to sleep the better!She wanted to see Wynstan again, she wanted desperately to go on talking to him, to be with him alone as they had been before the Italian beauty with her glittering diamonds had arrived.Yet at the same time she could not bear to see him, knowing he had just kissed the lovely Nicole and he would be thinking of her.She could not understand her own feelings; she only knew that the strange emotion in her breast, which she had felt as she had watched him kissing Nicole, had now become a vivid pain—a pain which was so intense that she wondered for a moment if she was on the point of dying.Even as she thought of it she longed to run downstairs, throw herself into Wynstan’s arms and ask him to hold her closely.How could she make him understand that she needed his strength and she wanted him to give her courage?Then she told herself he would only despise her for being a coward.He had laughed at her today when she had been upset in Pompeii.
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