CHAPTER SIXCalina spent a sleepless night wondering how she could have been so stupid and how she could remedy it.
Every way she looked seemed worse than the last and by morning she was feeling not only tired but agitated.
‘I expect sooner or later I will have to tell him the truth,’ she thought to herself.
But the very idea frightened her.
Finally she went on deck to realise that they were not far from Naples, which was to be their next stop.
She hoped that the Marquis would take her ashore to see some of the beautiful places they had spoken about at one time or another.
“I always found Naples one of the most attractive Ports of the whole of the Mediterranean,” she recalled him saying.
Then he had smiled at her and added,
“If you have not been there before, then it will be a new e
