Chapter 2
After what seemed to be an eternity the couple brook apart, Henry stepped back straightened his cloth and told Eliza in a quite cold and distanced voice "I shall buy you a ring tomorrow. You go and tell Mrs. Pearce that you are back and that she shall help you to rearrange your room and I'm going on a walk. I suppose I'll be back for dinner."
The confusion on Eliza's face was obvious, she didn't know what changed his mood so quickly just a moment ago he was happy and even romantic, which was totally unusual for Henry Higgins and now he was back to his old self if not even a little grumpier. Sure she hadn't expected him to change, but she had hoped that he would maybe just a little open up to her.
Eliza took all her courage together and nervously asked him "Henry what's the matter? Did I do something wrong? Have you changed you mind? Did you just realize that I'm not good enough for you? "
Henry could see the fear in her eyes "No, gods no you didn't do anything wrong and I haven't changed my mind" her tried to assure her.
"But I'm not good enough for you? Is that what you are trying to tell me. I mean I know that I'm not one of those society ladies and that it's not proper for you to marry someone like me…." Eliza started to babble until Henry interrupted her.
"Eliza stop it! You silly girl that is not true! You are more than good enough for me, but I can't tell you!"
"You can't tell me? Henry if we are to be married you should tell me everything!" she yelled at him.
"And what if I don't want to tell you? What if it's non of your business?" he yelled back, getting mad at her for not leaving him alone.
"Damn it! Don't you get it? Your business is going to be my business! But if you go on acting like an idiot I'm going to break up this hole thing and leave you, than you don't have to share your business with me!" Eliza couldn't remember that she had ever been so mad and so hurt at the same time.
"You really badly want to know what is going on? I'm telling you! I'm a confirmed old bachelor and you are a young beautiful and … well very attractive woman who deserves better than me. You could have every young man you would like to have. What if some day you realize that I'm not good enough for you and run of with one of those young men" Henry who first had yelled confessed his last sentence like a little boy who had broken a vase while playing.
Eliza looked shocked, she had never thought that he had such a problem with their age difference. He had no reason to believe that she would run of with a younger man, while she was living with him she had never had shown any interest in an other man. Sure there had been Freddy but she never was interested in him.
"Henry I didn't know you had such a problem with our age difference. How can you think that I would run of with another man? I don't care about the fact that you are older than me!" Eliza tried to assure and understand him.
"Eliza I don't really think that you would run of with another man, but well … what if I can't make you happy enough? I'm not romantic and I don't show my feelings, but you deserve a man who shows you that he loves you every day, who worships you and treats you like a Queen." He confessed.
"Oh Henry, I new from the moment I fell in love with you that you are not the romantic on and even if you don't show me that you love me every day, I will always know that you love me and you will worship me and treat me like a Queen every day." Eliza replied got nearer to him, took his face in her hands and gave him a light kiss which quickly deepened.
They both were so busy kissing that they hadn't realized the three people standing in the doorway of Henry's office.
tbc and thanks for reading
