Calypso Magic (Magic Trilogy 2) - Page 42

He watched the doctor's hand move beneath her nightgown to her chest. Odd how that angered him. It shouldn't, for God's sake. I am becoming a half-wit, he thought, and shook his head at himself.

As for Diana, she was too shocked to move. Lyon quickly said, "It's all right. Just hold still. Dr. McComber will be through in just a moment."

Dr. McComber leaned his head against her breast and listened. "Clear," he said, smiling. "At last. You had me worried, young lady. You are very strong and didn't go into pneumonia as I had feared. But you must rest." He shot a look toward Lord Saint Leven. "You will see to it, my lord?"

"Certainly," said Lyon. He realized at that moment that he was committed. To what? He drew his hand away from Diana's and stepped away. "If she is all right now, I shall take myself off. You will do as the doctor tells you, Diana."

With those words, he left the bedchamber, not looking back.

"I don't believe I understand," said Dr. McComber, frowning at Lord Saint Leven's retreating back.

"He feels guilty," said Diana. "That is all. Just guilty."

"Why should he feelguilt?"

He thrashed me and I kicked him in the groin and I tried to escape on the mare and when I couldn't I fell into the stream.

"He was with me when I got wet."

"Not his fault, I don't suppose."

"Certainly not."

Dr. McComber rose. "You will sleep now, Miss Savarol. Have you any more pain?"

Diana shook her head, suddenly exhausted.

The following day Lucia sent a message through Jamison to Lyonel's town house. There was no reply.

Lucia was angry. Damn and blast the stupid boy! Diana was being stubborn, recalcitrant, insulting to Mrs. Bailey, and altogether a miserable patient.

"Take her to the country, my lady," Dr. McComber said after a trying interview with Diana. She'd refused to let him touch her. The girl was a handful. He was pleased that she was so much better.

But when approached with this suggestion, Diana said to Lucia, "I want to go home. I will be strong enough in a couple of days. I want to go home."

Lucia, seeing that she was growing more and more upset, patted her hand, murmured soothing words, and left. When Lyon did not show himself that day or evening, she sent another message the following morning. This one, she thought, pleased, should get him here quickly enough.

She was smiling when Lyonel was announced some thirty minutes later.

"She is ill again?" were his first words.

"She will be if you don't do something."

"I do something? What is this about, Lucia?"

He still felt off balance at Lucia's cryptic message: "Diana is urgently agitating."

"She insists she wants to go home. Within the week."

"Don't be absurd," he said. "She is weak as a nearly drowned kitten ---"

"How would you know?"

He cursed and Lucia merely gave him her patented gimlet-eyed look.

He left her and headed upstairs to Diana's bedchamber. Mrs. Bailey, the dragon, was there. Lyon said in his most imperious voice, "You may leave us now."

Mrs. Bailey knew what was proper and what wasn't, and drew herself up for battle.

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