style="font-size:15px;"> “I should not be here otherwise,” he said sharply. “I was wounded four months ago and I can assure you that as soon as I have recovered I shall return to my Regiment.”
Now she could understand why anyone so young was working at the War Office.
She guessed that he had been given an important job because he was such an outstanding Officer and was obviously extremely intelligent.
The Earl, having reached the sofa, waited for Ivana to seat herself before he sat down as well.
She saw that one leg, which was in plaster, was stretched out in front of him.
He walked without a stick, but she was aware that he had touched two chairs as if for support on his way to the sofa.
Now she looked up at him and saw an expression in his eyes that she did not understand.
Then he said in a very quiet voice, almost as if he was speaking to himself,
“You are very young and very beautiful! Perhaps it is wrong of me to involve you in this.”
“You have not yet told me what it is,” Ivana retorted.
“I am thinking of you,” the Earl replied. “But I know that my country must come first. I am therefore going to offer you this position, but don’t forget you have the absolute right to reject it.”
“I-I know.”
“Then let me start from the beginning, I am sure you realise, as we do here at the War Office, that the end of the War is now in sight.”
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