An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)

by Julia Quinn

ruefully

strange, to find a woman who could make him happy just with her mere presence. He didn’t even have to see her, or hear her voice, or even smell her scent. He just had to know that she was there. If that wasn’t love, he didn’t know what was.

trying to show in deeds what he could not say in words.

He loved her. Suddenly the world was a very simple place. He loved her, and that was all that mattered.