“There’s a thirteenth-century church here containing the tomb of an Elizabethan earl. ; and if God saw him misbehaving, He might reverse His decision and place the offender among the damned. ” Dougless turned away. What about Lettice? In love with hiswife? Nicholas hadn’t thought of that cold-eyed bitch in weeks.
He wanted to put his own child on the throne, only the beauteous Lettice, the woman a man had died for, was barren. There, on black velvet, was the portrait Nicholas had had painted of her. I found that out the first time I opened the trunk, and I havethatletter hidden. No, he’d saved her by respecting her, and, because of him, Dougless had begun to see herself through his eyes.
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