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Out of the brightness of the day into the dark

The taxi fro the rutted drive that led up to Greymont The state of the drive was still on her ‘to-do’ list like a great deal else—including all the interior décor and furnishing work, conserving curtains and restoring ceilings But theco ell underway

Yet the very thought of them burned like fire on Diana’s skin

How could I have got it so wrong? So disastrously, catastrophically wrong!

The question went round and round in her tired, aching head as she walked into her bedroo round and round ever since she’d walked out of the hotel and into waiting car waiting to take her to the airport, her suitcase having been packed by the ed

Nikos had stayed i to have anythingher away

She’d walked out of the hotel like a zo until she’d taken her seat on the plane and faced up to what the reality of her e was

Coht it would be

That hat she could not bear That all along Nikos had assu to include oh-so-mutually convenient sex

He’d assumed that from the start! Intended it from the start!

And she’d blinded herself to it Wilfully, deliberately, not wanting to adht fro at her it had been with desire

I toldwhether I would fit the bill for his trophy wife, if had the right connections, the right background—the right ancestral home

Bitter anger at herself writhed within her How could she have been such a fool not to have realised what Nikos had assue deal? What he’d taken for granted would be included right from the start

But it was easy to see why Because she’d wanted to believe that her only role in his life would be to give him an entrée into her upper-class world Because that had meant she would be able to yield to the desperate te Greymont