“A very strange coincidence!” Lord Castleford said and once again he was sneering.
“If you really believe I could have had any wish to accompany an enemy of my country aboard a British ship, you must be half-witted!”
There was no doubt now that she was as angry as he was and they faced each other defiantly, their eyes dark with rage. Lord Castleford’s lips were set in a hard line and his chin was square.
“I should send you back!” he said at length.
“You are unable to do that because of the scandal it would cause,” Yamina retorted. “Besides if you do, I shall excuse my action by claiming that you begged me to run away with you!”
“That is just the sort of thing I would expect you to say!” Lord Castleford said. “Who can trust a woman, least of all a Russian?”
Yamina seated herself on on
