The Earl Rings A Bell

shine like a glowing light or rather like the star your father said he looked for in the sky.”

His voice deepened

parties – in the future and refuse to – invite his wife!”

“There will be no parties,” the Earl said, “except very respectable ones in which, my darling, you will

You don’t – think that the – Earl of Huntingford will be giving those – sort of

He looked so happy as he spoke that Donela smiled back at him and said

lovely. That is certainly something I must do so that you do not get involved with men like Basil Banks or go to stag parties like those given by the raffish Earl of Huntingford!”

I thought I was going to look after you, my

after you so that – you are – never in the – same sort of danger again.”

The Earl laughed very tenderly

than if you said ‘no’ to me

The Earl’s arms tightened.

“I have never asked anyone to marry me before,” he said, “and I can think of nothing more humiliating

now if you will not marry me I shall be far more crippled than by anything Faulkner and his accomplice could ever do to me.”