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Grant had a hard ti she could be so different

He’d relaxed some after they’d had their talk at breakfast, and he was sorry to hear she hadn’t kno rand tour, showing her the castle grounds and the farht of the tour seerassy pasture She was fascinated with the "cute" woolly cows and had to get out of the car for a closer look, which couldn’t help but amuse him She was just as enthralled with the vista of the North Sea Unlike her father, who couldn’t have cared less about anything but the finances and his next drink

"I think I was a sea sprite inin the sea air "I love being near the sea"

He stared at her, surprised to hear her speak about so so personal "At home where you live, are you land bound?"

"I a Annapolis, and the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, but otherwise, I live way inland This is beautiful"

"It can be bitterly cold and stormy" He didn’t mean to ruin her impression of the area, but if she had romantic notions that it was always this way, he wanted to dispel them

"Yes," she said, as if the notion pleased her

The weather had been nice since she’d arrived, except for this y and she’d taken the ith Borthwick in the gardens Grant wondered then if really bad weather would faze her--her father had hated the eather and cold Though Grant didn’t re that Theodore had actually liked

Grant drove her to the last stop they’dburn poured over rassy hills surrounded them, and sheep wandered near the top of one of the hills

"Can we cli him to pull over into a car park

He was surprised to see her s with fascination He hadn’t expected to see her this enthralled with the land Of course she’d appreciate what the land could mean financially to her, but to treasure it like he and his kin did? Definitely unexpected

She was out of the car in a flash and cli the nearest hill before he could hurry to catch up The grass was like velvet and the climb easy as theydown one of the hills way off in the distance