CHAPTER TENAs the Duke made his way back to his beloved Ola, he knew that he was a totally happy man for perhaps the first time in his life.
But when he reached the place where he had left her, to his astonishment he saw that her seat was empty.
“I wonder where she can be?” he thought. “Perhaps she went to look for me.”
He addressed the elderly lady in the next seat.
“I am sorry to bother you, madam, but I left my friend here a short while ago and now she has disappeared.”
The woman smiled.
“Oh, after you had gone an elderly man came up and told her that the Queen wanted to see her.”
“Are you sure that was what she was told?” the Duke asked in surprise.
“I am almost certain that was what the man said. But he had a strange accent and was definitely a foreigner, so I might have been
