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‘And I won’t be happy,’ I teased him, ‘until you tell me why. Why did you choose me? Why not Hester? Or Eve? Or someone really glamorous?’

‘Because I love you,’ he said in answer. ‘And because . . .’ He quoted a well-known Spanish proverb,
‘Amor no tiene eleccion.
In love there is no choosing.’

Then he kissed me again and I knew that the key to the Head of Chancery’s heart was mine. Like the little Indian princess, my master and my husband would always be one.