And she was quite certain that they would never come back.
*
They had luncheon on board.
Then because the heat from the sun had grown very strong and, as Royden said they were in the East and the East was always very hot at that time of day, they went into the Master cabin.
Malva was looking so happy and beautiful it would have been difficult for him not to kiss her while they were having luncheon.
As he took her in his arms, he sighed,
“I have been tortured for long enough and now I can kiss you as I really want to kiss you. I can tell you, my darling, in kisses rather than words how much you mean to me.”
He kissed her until they were both breathless.
Then, slipping off the thin dress she was wearing, he carried her into the big bed.
As he joined her, she gazed at Royden and sighed,
“I thought, darling, this would never happen to me. Yet today when we were being married I knew that neither your life nor mine would be complete unless we had found and married the one we loved.”
“It is what I have been searching for all my life,” Royden said. “I think I only said I never intended to marry simply because I was always disillusioned sooner or later, perhaps bored is the right word, by the women I was with.”
He smiled tenderly for a moment before he went on,
“But with you, my precious Malva, it is very very different. I love not only your beauty but your brains and every part of you that now belongs to me. That is what I have always wanted, but not been aware of until now. I know that I am the most fortunate man in the whole wide world.”
Malva gave a little cry,
“That is what I want you to feel and I have been praying all the time we were being married that I would never disappoint you and we would find the love we have always longed for but pretended we did not want.”
She gave a sigh before she added,
“But now we will cherish our wonderful love and it will increase day by day and year by year.”
“That is what I want you to say and you have put it in far better words than I could,” he replied.
Then he was kissing her, kissing her at first gently and then demandingly as if he was asking her to surrender herself completely to her.
When finally he made Malva his, she felt as if he carried her up into the sky and then the sun enveloped them until they were burning with the fire and wonder of it.
It was Love. The Love they had both thought was impossible to find, the love which is part of God, which comes from God and would be theirs for all Eternity and beyond into an Infinity of happiness.
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