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That made Margaret laugh a little and paused her crying. She nodded at her father and then put her arms around him, and he scooped her into his arms.
“You’ve had a big night,” he said lovingly to her. “Are you perhaps ready to go to bed?”
Margaret nodded against her father’s neck and smiled to Anne and Robert. “I’m afraid we’re going to have to steal the children away for a short nap until the morning. Our most heartfelt congratulations to the two of you, and we shall begin planning your nuptials when the sun rises!”
George came up and kissed Anne on the cheek and then shook Robert’s hand. Eponine and George took the three children and guided them up to bed. Robert was filled with such love and happiness seeing them walk away. He was over the moon with happiness that he could finally be his true self with his family.
He did wonder where his father and his sister had got to, however. He knew that he was going to have to speak to them at some point very soon as they were both still on the estate, but for now, he was going to revel in his happiness with Anne.
He turned to his fiancée and smiled at her. She looked so radiantly beautiful that he could hardly contain his joy when he looked upon her. He extended his hand to her, she took it, and then he pulled her in close. They began to slowly sway back and forth in each other’s arms.
“My darling,” he whispered to her, “I know that this is a very improper thing to ask …” he placed a gentle kiss upon her neck – “but I was wondering if I could tempt you …”
“Yes,” Anne blurted out suddenly, and Robert chuckled at the speed with which she had responded. “Whatever it is that you wish to tempt me with, I am saying yes. Just so long as we save ourselves for ... the most intimate act of all for our wedding night.”
Robert nodded emphatically. “I wouldn’t have assumed anything else. Shall we ... retire to my room?”
Anne drew herself back from him and bit her lower lip as her mouth curled into a grin. “Certainly.”
They walked hand-in-hand back towards Robert’s room as slowly as they could make themselves. Robert knew that he would have to be on his best behaviour to resist doing absolutely everything that he wanted to with Anne, but he was already becoming hard at the thought of being with her in whatever way she would take him.
