CHAPTER SIXCaterina stared at the Duke.
“Are you really finding this funny?” she asked.
“Not really. I feel sorry for you and I am sorry for myself. But now we are in this mess we have to put our heads together and find out how we can get out of it.”
Caterina sighed.
“I have been thinking of how to ‘get out’ of messes ever since I arrived at the Palace. It was not an easy task to save Henriet from herself or indeed to pretend to be her at the wedding.”
“You acted magnificently,” the Duke said. “I was completely deceived. I thought that you were the difficult hysterical woman I expected you to be.”
The way he spoke made it sound funny and then Caterina replied,
“We must be serious about this. I need to write to my father for one thing and explain what has happened and I am sure that
