CHAPTER TWO“I am frightened!” Princess Margarita quavered in a low voice.
Paulina turned from the porthole where she had been looking out to sea.
“Frightened?” she queried.
She realised that the Princess was speaking in a secretive manner because the language that she was using was English.
Before they had left The Palace at Altauss the Grand Duke Louis had called both the Princess and Paulina into his private room.
“I want you both to listen to me,” he began in a serious voice.
Paulina had looked at him apprehensively and was wondering what he was about to say.
The Grand Duke paused for a moment as if he was feeling for his words.
Then he started,
“I think you are both educated enough to be aware that Russia is different from other countries and that the Secret Police have a repu
