Bab 82: Healing wounds?

''It's not that. He has affections for me but he just refuses to see them. He is always so cold and distant that for him, affections are nothing. So, he is just not seeing them,'' Esme tried to make the situation look better. 

And Duchess Flora immediately picked up her silk napkin to wipe her unshed tears, ''Are you telling the truth?" 

I am lying, ''Yes,'' Esme inwardly sighed in relief. The heavens might have killed her with a thunderstrike if she had made this delicate lady cry. 

''Your Grace, we did not find anyone except for a few cats playing there,'' The guards reported. 

Duchess Flora waved her hand, ''You can leave,'' She turned to look at Esme, ''No matter what, you should not give up.''

Esme nodded, ''I am determined to win his heart,'' I am determined to tell you the truth before I leave.

For someone who loathed liars, Esme believed that she had sinned again and again by lying to these people.