"Are you really determined to make love to me ?" "Ah, don't mock me!" he begged.

"What I am saying to you comes from my heart." Philippa laughed at him quietly.

There was just a little break in her voice, however.
"Don't be absurd!" "There is nothing absurd about it," he replied, with a note of sadness in his tone.

"I felt it from the moment we met.

I struggled against it, but I have felt it growing day by day.