Chapter 16 THE MAKING OF A GODDESS

So she said the next day, not now with the aplomb of a lady, but as a servant:-

"Lord, there is a reason why you cannot-even-" she choked in her throat-"take me. Do you not know it?"

"Do not call me lord," he said, "as if you were a servant and I your master."

"It is right that I should do so, lord."

"I won't have it," he laughed.

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