“And I meant every word. I don’t want to forget. Though I feel ashamed at it all, I would not do it any different.” I had confessed at the right time—that much I knew. If William hadn’t loved me in that moment, then he’d never loved me at all. “You may be comfortable sweeping your feelings aside, William—and you may be used to doing the same to Miss Nagel’s or Lady Iris’s—but you will not do it to mine. Pretend what you want, but I will not forget what I said. Neither will I take it back.”
