The Scottish Companion
“Perhaps if he made her walk, he might cause her to awaken. For the next quarter hour, he half dragged her around the room, cursing the chamber’s small proportions. If he’d been at Rosemoor, he’d have had twenty feet in either direction, but as it was, there was only a few feet between the bed and the wall.
“Gillian, you cannot leave me like this. You cannot bedevil me on the one hand, and simply disappear from my life on the other. How will I survive? What will happen to my days if I do not see... you in the morning? What will I do in the evenings without the sight of you at dinner, without your sparkling eyes teasing me?”
What would he do without her?
He was finding it more and more difficult to fall back into the role of earl. How very odd that with her he felt as if he were in Italy again, unencumbered by rank, simply enjoying his life.
She did that to him. She brought him freedom, and he hadn’t realized it until this moment.
He heard Dr. Fenton before he saw him. The man was shouting as he walked down the corridor, the openness of the building echoing the sound of his orders.MoreLess
“Gillian, you cannot leave me like this. You cannot bedevil me on the one hand, and simply disappear from my life on the other. How will I survive? What will happen to my days if I do not see... you in the morning? What will I do in the evenings without the sight of you at dinner, without your sparkling eyes teasing me?”
What would he do without her?
He was finding it more and more difficult to fall back into the role of earl. How very odd that with her he felt as if he were in Italy again, unencumbered by rank, simply enjoying his life.
She did that to him. She brought him freedom, and he hadn’t realized it until this moment.
He heard Dr. Fenton before he saw him. The man was shouting as he walked down the corridor, the openness of the building echoing the sound of his orders.MoreLess
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