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well rich sauces give her indigestion. She should
have been more careful about what she was eating for Saturday dinner. But it is
tomorrow’s menu I want to discuss with you.’
    ‘Oh,
of course. How many shall there be?’
    ‘Well,
the two of us and your aunt Grahams shall come from London with Louisa and
Henry. Then I invited Mr Ford. That is six of us plus Jane and David with Mark
and Clara. And, of course, Lord Timsbury’s sister, Amelia. She will come with
an older cousin, Lady Hornby.’
    ‘That
makes twelve. And too many ladies. Shall we invite the vicar and Doctor Grant
so we can have even numbers?’
    ‘Splendid
idea, my dear. I shall write to them immediately. As to the menu…’
     
    It
was early afternoon when Alex finally came back to the hunting lodge. He had
had a busy day. The house was clean and tidy due to Mrs Thomas’s ministrations
and there was plenty of food for his dinner. Although he was hungry, he went
straight to the room he shared with Dinah last night. He left it locked, not
wanting Mrs Thomas to see with her own eyes the proofs to the suspicions she had
already held.
    When
he visited her in the morning and explained what kind of help he needed from
her, she did not ask any questions. She simply set to work preparing breakfast
for Dinah, sending Dick to hire a carriage and horses and then to help Alex
retrieve Dinah’s belonging from the broken carriage. But he could see in her
eyes that she guessed how he spent the previous night. She was a sharp woman
but he knew that she would not breathe a word and, damn it, he paid her well
for it.
    The
room still smelled of Dinah. Of the fire. And above all, of their lovemaking.
Alex closed his eyes as he lifted one of the blankets and breathed in the
delicate fragrant of roses mixed with the smell of their bodies. Only now did
he notice a bloodstain at the fur rag. He touched it and swallowed hard trying
to ignore his growing arousal. How is he going to wait till the nightfall?
    Determined
to keep himself busy, he began methodically removing traces of last night’s
events. For the hundredth time he reassured himself that things would turn well
and that his plan would not backfire on him.
     
    CHAPTER
5
    The
sky was clear after last night’s storm and bright from the full moon when Dinah
stole through the quiet garden. She was wearing a dark cloak, not so much for
warmth as to make herself invisible among the shadows. Her heart was beating
fast from the excitement and from joy that she had finally managed to slip from
the house unnoticed.
    She
had to undress and pretend that she went to bed and wait till past eleven
o’clock until, finally, all was silent. Then she pulled on a grey day dress
over her chemise and tiptoed down the stairs. It was late but she did not
worry. Alex wrote that he would wait till dawn. Still, she nearly ran through
the woods. The moon cast strange shadows on the path and the spring air was
full of mysterious noises, but Dinah was not afraid. She was going to meet with
her lover and it was all part of the adventure.
    After
about half an hour she could see the silhouette of an old, ruined building and
the flicker of a bonfire lit among the crumbling walls. There was a horse tied
to one of the low branches.
    Alex
was waiting for her!
    She
called to him and could see the man standing up and moving fast towards her.
Within seconds she was in Alex’s arms.
    He
lifted her and carried towards the fire, where he laid her on the soft, woollen
blanket. His hungry lips covered hers in demanding kisses, his hands pulled at
her clothes, freeing her from her cloak, dress and shift. Then he quickly
undressed himself.
    ‘I
was afraid that you’d not come’ he whispered kissing her white neck. ‘Were you
not scared alone in the woods?’
    ‘No’
she laughed burying her fingers in his hair. ‘I knew you’ll be waiting for me.’
     
    As
Alex took her under the moonlit sky, he could not stop marvelling at the
extraordinary beauty of