Instead as far as the world was concerned, the Prince had done his duty!
He had gone to his wife’s bedroom and it would be believed that he had made love to her and they were man and wife not only in name but in actual fact.
The humiliation of it made Ilona throw herself down again in the bed, but this time her face was hidden in the pillow.
He did not want her!
She had been forced upon him by circumstances and, while once he had kissed her because he thought her lovely, he was completely indifferent to her charms now that she was his wife.
She knew little about men and less about love.
Yet she had always heard that if a woman was attractive, men desired her, even though what they felt was not love, not the real love a woman sought in marriage.
But as far as the Prince was concerned
