“We will introduce you to them as Elizabeth, my wife.” His mouth took on a bitter twist. “The events of this day will provide gossip for the parish for a long time to come. I will wager anything you wish that in the gossip over Darcourt’s death, and then our approaching marriage, no one will notice a change of name.” Then he smiled down at her again as if dismissing all thoughts of that nature. “If they should notice they will either think you were christened with several names, as they were, or that they must have heard it wrong. It doesn’t matter very much to me what they think.”
“And if someone should question me about it?”
“Smile and look innocent as you so well know how to do.”
“Suppose they ask you?”
“They won’t,” he said, and looking at his face that could be so forbidding, Elizabeth knew that he spoke nothing but the truth.
He smiled, looking down at her, and the smile erased the sternness, touched his eyes with tenderness, and softened the hard lines of his lips that he lowered to hers, expecting her surrender.
There are many things more important to a woman’s heart than winning a battle of wills. He was not disappointed.
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