The Marquis of Staverton looked down at her cheeks wet with tears, her lips quivering, and her blue eyes too shy to meet his. "Tell me," he said, "why it matters to you what I think and feel about you."
Gilda could only look up at him helplessly, thinking that he must see love in her eyes and know that she was acutely conscious of his lips near to hers.
"Tell me," he commanded.
"It is... because l... love you! " she said. "I... I know I have... no right to do so... but I cannot... help it."
"Just as I cannot help loving you," the Marquis said, and his lips came down on hers.
Then the wonder of the Marquis's kiss made her feel as if the darkness and fear were all left behind, and he carried her into the sunshine and up into the very heart of the sun.
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Orphaned and poverty-stricken, Gilda is amazed when her sister Heloise arrives unexpectedly, for Heloise has been living in London with her wealthy Godmother and scheming for the hand of the Marquis of Staverton.
Then suddenly Heloise dies of an overdose of laudanum. Gilda decides to impersonate her sister and seek help from Heloise's Godmother. But Gilda herself falls under the spell of the handsome Marquis, and discovers that Heloise had been involved in something treacherous ..
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