“I love you so much i can hardly tell my own heart from yours anymore, and I’ve never said it to another woman in my life as it’s never until now been true.”

“What happens next?” she whispered.Connor turned to her and smiled faintly. Always a question, that was Rebecca.There’s more?” he said in mock wondermentRebecca dimpled.You know very well there is more.”Tell me all about it,” he encouraged.In Papa’s book—”Tell me all about it without mentioning your papa.”

“He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.”

“He was still thoughtful. ‘Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?’ ‘Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it’s daylight and everyone is still sober.”