Chapter TwoLord Athelstan stood for a long time after Countess Natasha had left the room wondering what he could do to help her.
He knew that there was in fact nothing.
It was unthinkable that he should in his position get himself involved in anything so completely alien to Western thought.
When the Princesses returned to their homes, they would certainly relate what had happened to their friend, the young Countess, and the whole world would be shocked at the thought of a Christian woman being incarcerated in the Sultan’s Palace.
Every instinct in Lord Athelstan’s body urged him to prevent this happening, but his mind told him logically and unemotionally that he was in point of fact powerless.
He could, of course, appeal to the Imam and this he intended to do.
Hadjio came to tell him
