Читать книгу The Moon for Lavinia - Бетти Нилс - Страница 2
“It’s like a dream,” she told him, “and everything has happened so quickly, it doesn’t seem real.”
ОглавлениеHe touched her cheek with a gentle finger. “It’s real, my dear.”
He spoke so softly that she exclaimed, “Oh, Radmer, are you sorry that…? Do you want to change your mind…? It would be all right, truly it would. I can’t think why you chose me in the first place.”
He took her hands in his, there in the empty corridor outside her room. “Don’t be a goose! I’m not sorry and I don’t want to change my mind, although, like you, I’m not quite sure why I chose you.”
He bent to kiss her and wished her good night and she slipped into her room…. It was silly to cry about nothing, and that was what she was doing. She told herself that over and over again before she at last fell asleep.
