Chapter 4

“Daphne, listen to me now.” He took her hands and held them fast. “I’ve never loved but you, and I’ve always loved you. I’ll never marry but you. Perhaps you did me a wrong once, but you can’t mend it by doing a worse wrong now, and that is what you’ll do if you cast me out of your life again. You know I’m no hand to tell out what is in my heart. It was like that long ago when you thought me a blundering, clumsy lover—and so I was. But if you won’t marry me I’ll never go back to West Albion again.” “Oh, Neil,” she …