CHAPTER TWOLarisa watched the white cliffs of Dover receding into the distance and then as the wind was strong went below.
There was a seat reserved for her in the Saloon and she looked around with interest at her fellow-passengers.
They did not seem to be very exciting and her thoughts drifted away into speculation of what lay ahead.
This was an adventure, something that a month ago she had never envisaged might happen.
Just for a moment, as she said goodbye to Nicky who had accompanied her to Dover, she felt a little panic-stricken.
It was with an effort that she stopped herself from pleading with him to take her home again, to say that she could not face going off alone into the unknown.
Then the courage she had never lacked, and the buoyancy that made her always believe everythin
