Chapter 113

She just nodded. “You told him that you were considering that?”

“I did. I’d waited and waited. I wasn’t going to wait any longer.”

“Thinking that would jolt him, and he’d realise he was in danger of losing you?”

“Yes. It was a foolish attempt. He finally wrote back. He…he wished me good luck.”

“Did he know how much you loved him?”

He looked up from the last few drops of tea in his cup, and wearily shook his head. “We never spoke of love. He’d told me right at the start that he loved someone else. You can have my body, Fox, he said, but my heart belongs to another. And I’d swear the way he said another it was in capital letters.”

“Oh, my word! If that doesn’t sound just like Warrick. He did tend to dramatize things, even as a boy.”

“Did he? How did Sayer feel about having a rival for your son’s affections?”