‘He's the image of you.’ Rebecca looked down at the sleeping child. ‘He has your face. Your features. He could be Rayner's twin. It's astonishing.’
‘It's rather unsettling.’ Turning away, Ellis frowned.
But Rebecca gazed on. Searching the child's face for malevolence, she saw nothing but childish innocence. Well aware that any son of Lalage must have at best a mixed inheritance, she refused to consider it. Owen was a Darrow. He was her own dear Ellis, born again.
‘You'd love him for my sake?’ asked Ellis, doubtfully. ‘If we kept him here, would you accept him as readily as a son of our own?
‘Yes.’ Looking up from her contemplation of Owen, Rebecca took her husband's hand. ‘He needs us,’ she said simply. ‘Poor helpless child, who will love him, if we do not?’
Copyright © 1994 by Margaret James
Originally published by Severn House [UK] (ISBN 072784623X)
Electronically published in 2011 by Belgrave House
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