CHAPTER SEVENClive walked back to Alissia who, as he reached her, looked at him questioningly.
“It’s all right,” he told her gently. “We are going back to the Royal Palace, and as I want to talk to you now, I suggest we go down into the cabin.”
He guessed as she smiled at him that she had been worried he might insist at the last moment that she should go back to Lord Pronett.
Clive closed the cabin door behind him.
He had changed his mind and told the Captain he should now take them slowly back to the Royal Palace.
“I mean slowly,” he repeated.
“Thank you! Thank you, Clive,” Alissia cried as he came towards her. “I was desperate, but somehow I knew you would save me.”
“Just as you once saved me, Alissia,” replied Clive. “I think therefore I must now look after you for the rest of yo
