“I suggest that you stay here for a few minutes while I go inside and see if I can find the gentleman I wish to consult.”
As she did not answer, he said,
“You will be quite safe in the carriage.”
There were sentries on either side of the door that he then disappeared through.
Aletha sat in the carriage looking in the opposite direction.
She thought that no view from any Palace could be more stunningly beautiful.
Then, because she wanted to see it from the balustrade itself, she got out of the carriage and she walked first to the beautiful fountain.
Its water was pouring iridescent over rocks and statues into a stone basin beneath it.
Then, as she had just reached the balustrade to look down at the boats moving slowly on the Danube, she said involuntarily,
“Could anything be more e
