CHAPTER FIVECalina was determined to see as much of Marseilles as she could as she had always heard that it was a most attractive City.
The fact that it was in France, and she could speak French perfectly, made her feel that it would be easy for her to go round the shops and the sights without feeling at all out of place.
She put on her widow’s weeds again and took some extra money in her purse in case she found anything that she particularly wanted to buy.
She then set off from the ship.
She had, if she was honest, been hoping that the Marquis would take her ashore.
But, as she passed by one of the smaller Saloons on the deck, she heard the Marquis laughing in one of them with, she thought, three or four men.
It was obvious that he would have a few friends in Marseilles and would no
