Abe had intended to stay away for a week, time for Isobel to recover from her temporary in this portion and from her distress over not seeing him. Time for him to decide how to deal with the wife he desired, whom he had, undoubtedly, wronged and yet, somehow could not bring himself to trust. She has wronged me a mutinous voice reminded himself. She had never explained how she could shut Laura out of her life for six years. She had acted apart as Mrs Jordan. She had tried to entrap him into marriage. And yet I love her.
Abe gritted his teeth and looked out of the window at the site of the park rolling past the carriage windows. The sun was just setting and the stands of the Beech trees cast long, lovely shadows across the grass. He was in no mood to natural appreciate natural beauty four d
