CHAPTER THREEBefore either Henriet or Fritz could say anything more there was a knock on the door.
They all three started.
With a swift movement Fritz, slipped back through the opening in the wall and then disappeared, while Henriet went to the door and unlocked it.
It was with a sense of great relief that Caterina saw Malca standing there.
“His Royal Highness be lookin’ for you, Princess,” she said to Henriet.
Henriet turned her head towards Caterina.
“Hurry,” she advised. “It would be a mistake for him to realise that we have been here.”
Malca had already vanished and without saying any more Henriet ran from the hut under the trees to the far side of that part of the garden.
Then breathless, she stopped and said to Caterina, who had followed her,
“Now we will walk slowly from he
