Chapter FourWilliam Sleeman was determined that his wife should travel slowly and that the journey to Gwalior would be a pleasant one.
Ordinarily he would have taken the journey himself without undue hurry in five days, but with Amelie and Brucena with him he was determined that they should enjoy the countryside and he would also take the opportunity of inspecting various of his own territories on the way.
He was amused by Lord Rawthorne’s insistence that they arrive as soon as possible and he was not so obtuse as not to realise that the reason was a desire to see Brucena rather than to entertain them with the festivities he was arranging in their honour.
However he considered his own interests more important.
He therefore sent a number of messengers ahead to arrange for him to see the
