““I don’t think that is very funny,” she said sternly.
“It’s not a joke,” replied Charles. “I mean it!”
She turned back to look at him and he could see the astonishment in her eyes.
“Are – you really – suggesting – ?” she stammered.
“Now listen, Rania, if I give you a thousand pounds you can keep your horses, and you can do a great deal of what I can see needs doing to this house. I will be frank and say that I can well afford it. At the same time you will be doing me a really good turn.”
She made a helpless gesture with her hands.
“But it – is impossible. It would be wonderful for us – of course it would. But how would anyone – believe that you wanted – to marry me?”
Charles smiled.
“You are most beautiful and if you were properly dressed you would be a sensation in the Beau Monde.”
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