The Secret of Veriker

"We understood his staying on and yet each of us saw, I think, that the other hated it," says Verica. "It seemed more than a hint that on me as well he would impose some tiresome condition." Corvik has told her after they were married exactly what she wanted to know,. Only then, when I'm his wife, not before, said Gwendolyn. She smiled at me while I flushed with disappointment; this was tantamount to saying, isn't it, that I must marry him straight off? That's the end of chapter 7.