Slightly Sinful
“"After my father's death?" She gazed away toward the lake, across which a band of moonlight shone. "I felt bruised and battered. I thought that if he had had any vestiges of feeling left for me, he would have come in person as he did after my mother's death. It did not occur to me that he was ill and could not travel, and I suppose it did not occur to him to let me know. Perhaps he assumed that I already did. His letter seemed abrupt and imperious. It seemed cold." "If you had come then," he sa...id, "you would not have gone to Brussels and become involved with Crawley. You would not have incurred this sense of deep obligation to your friends. You would not have become involved in this charade." "And I would not have met you," she added. "Now there is a thought." He laughed softly. "If you had come here last year when your uncle invited you, I would very probably be dead." "I think," she said, "I would hate that." "So would I," he said fervently. "Look," she said, pointing downward. There, in a paddock behind the stables, two people were dancing in the moonlight, the man large and somewhat ungainly, the woman tall and voluptuous.MoreLess
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