CHAPTER FOURAs Calina turned towards him, she replied,
“I think everyone wishes on the stars, but my wish has come true.”
Then she thought now that she could see him more clearly than when he had been sitting on the other side of the Captain over dinner that he was more good-looking and taller than she had expected him to be.
She had the idea, although for no particular reason, that he was a good rider.
The Marquis paused for a moment and then he said,
“I think your wish must have been that you would travel to Egypt, which I have learnt from the Captain is your destination.”
“That is true,” Calina answered him.
She was gazing back at the sea.
Then the Marquis said,
“I have been wondering all through dinner why I have not seen you before. I just cannot believe that you hid yoursel
