[Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land by Rosa Praed]@TWC D-Link bookLady Bridget in the Never-Never Land CHAPTER 14 6/15
And I attract marked types. Will was more marked and more attractive--as well as attracted--that's all.' 'His attraction doesn't seem to have been as strong as self-interest, any way,' said Joan, with deliberate terseness. The girl's small, pale face flushed to deep crimson for a moment. 'Joan, you are cruel! You know that was the sting! And it wouldn't have stung so if I hadn't cared.
Sometimes I feel the maddest desire to hurt him--to pay him out.
I never felt like that about any of the others--the ones I really did ALMOST want to marry.
And then--at other times I'd give ANYTHING just to have him again as he used to be.' 'I'm certain you weren't really in love with him,' exclaimed Mrs Gildea. Bridget seemed to be considering.
'Wasn't I ?--I'm not so sure of that. No--' she went on impetuously, 'I was not REALLY in love with him.
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