CHAPTER TWOPythia started preparing supper.
She was a far better cook than Erina.
Soon after she had come to live in the little thatched cottage, she had found that they enjoyed the food she prepared and she had taken over the cooking.
She did not mind because she had done it for her father and mother.
When she thought back of what fun it had been when they had eaten a meal cooked over a gypsy’s fire or in a peasant’s cottage, she wanted to cry.
But tears would not bring back her parents and she knew that she had to show the courage that had been characteristic of her mother.
After Lady Aileen O’Kelly had married Prince Lucian of Seriphos, her father, the Earl had hoped that his second daughter would make an equally impressive marriage.
He was not exactly a snob, but he was extremel
