Chapter ThreeBrucena held her breath.
For a moment it seemed as if a thousand questions flashed into her mind.
Then, as she knew what she feared, she was aware that she must not speak of it in front of Amelie.
Already she had said that she was frightened and Brucena had known ever since she arrived in Saugor that William Sleeman deliberately avoided talking about the Thugs in front of his wife.
It was not only because she was pregnant but also because, like most Englishmen, he believed that ladies should be protected and cosseted against anything that was unpleasant or violent.
There was a chivalry about him that she knew was part of his Cornish ancestry and she remembered that her Cornish grandfather, whom she had loved, had had the same principles.
She therefore bit back the suspic
