۵۰. سواری به سوی ماه

Lord Frodham and his friend Sir James Overton lay a wager that they can dupe the snobbish, horse racing-obsessed Marquis of Ardsley into falling in love with some beauty of the lower orders. They can hardly believe their luck when by chance they rescue lovely young heiress Indira Rowlandson from her dead father{u2019}s evil lawyer who is bent on marrying her off to a bankrupt stranger. Indira is set on joining a Convent to escape the unwanted attentions of men, whom she hates, but, agreeing to their plan out of gratitude, she finds herself among high Society at Ardsley Hall. And, finding that the imperious Marquis shares her passion for the mysteries of the Orient, in spite of herself she begins to fall in love When the Marquis of Ardley boasts that he could always tell a woman of high breeding, Lord Frodham and Sir James Overton decide to take up the challenge to find a woman who can fool him. On their way, they rescue beautiful Indira and persuade her to go along with their charade. When she meets the handsome Marquis, she cannot deceive him. The Marquis knew as he held her close that the feelings she aroused in him were different from any emotion he had ever known before in his whole life. Indira knew now that what she had felt in the Temples and in the beauty of every country she had visited, could be expressed in one word--Love. Only when she felt as if the Marquis had swept her up and they were riding among the stars did he raise his head and ask in a strangely unsteady voice: "What do you feel about me now?" Indira spoke what was in her heart. "I... love you... I love you!"