![]() ![]() “I got the distinct feeling he didn’t wish to be seen,” he replied. “You were in Paris at the same time as your brother, but you didn’t come to see him?” This was the strangest family I had ever known. The very normality of the scene added to the surreal sensations I was experiencing. Cad and I sat on opposite sides of the hearth watching the leaping ballet of the firelight. Lucy and Eleanor were seated at a table in a corner of the room, poring over a magazine. Tynan, still weakened by his illness, had already retired to bed. ![]() “How did you know Paris was ‘buzzing’ about my engagement to Eddie?” I asked him later, when we were sipping tea in the parlour. For the remainder of the meal my mind insistently took me back, with a combination of embarrassment and pleasure, to that delirious afternoon, soon after my arrival in Paris. The identity of the man to whom I had given my body-and, yes, my heart-with such desperate abandon, was no longer a mystery. With calculated casualness, he began a conversation with his father about the acquisition of a new mill. ![]() ![]() He flashed that coldly charming smile again, secure in the knowledge that I was remembering every detail of the night we had spent together. Oddly enough, it was the dispassionate way he could speak of it, rather than the crudeness of his words, that singed my emotions. ![]()
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