“I have made my wish. In case we talk it out of existence, I suggest we sit down comfortably in one of the chairs and I will order you a cup of coffee or a drink if you prefer it.”
“I would love a cup of coffee,” Calina replied, “and it is very kind of you, my Lord.”
There were two chairs just round the corner from the bow.
She sat down in one of them as the Marquis went to the door where he would find a Steward to bring them the drinks they wanted.
‘I am so very lucky,’ she thought to herself ‘to find someone so interesting and so charming on this ship.’
She was certain if she had been travelling in Second Class, as she had intended to do, that the men would have been quite different.
She might have had to go to bed immediately after dinner so as not to be forced into talking, or w
