The Ravishing Of Lady Mary Ware (1971) - Plot & Excerpts
He could not make up his mind whether he was glad or sorry to see her. But he could not ignore her beckoning hand. Dismounting, and with his horse’s reins over his arm, he made a leg, then put one foot on the step of the carriage and, with a smile, asked: ‘Well, how does it feel to be a Duchess?’ Georgina hesitated nervously for a moment before breaking into hurried speech, ‘No different. But Roger, my dear, let’s not talk of that. Oh, I pray you not to hold it against me, for I believed you dead. It seems that we are fated never to marry. I can only thank God that you are still alive.’ ‘I, too,’ he agreed. ‘Although for a while after I got back to England I wished myself dead. But does our meeting here not remind you of another occasion when we met by accident?’ ‘Why, yes!’ she exclaimed, with a quick smile. ‘’Twas on this very spot that, in ’89, we encountered each other after your return from four years on the Continent. How strange a coincidence.’ ‘It is indeed.
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