The MacNaughton Bride (22 page)

And although the bets were
that this abnormal infatuation would ease off after a couple of months, they
were still at it – to nearly everyone’s amusement – years later,
after she’d presented him with three sons and two daughters, and they had left
nearly every ball they’d attended early, escaping at a frightfully impolite
early hour to get home and happily spend their night working on a sixth child.
 

Gossips be damned, they
were monumentally happy, and each considered themselves incredibly lucky to
have found the other.
 
Their home
was their sanctuary, their heaven on earth, and they celebrated their love
every evening in each other’s arms.