CHAPTER FIVEValona heard a knock at her door.
She realised that it was the Duke’s valet telling her that it was time for her to get up.
She pulled back the curtains over the portholes and saw that the sun had just risen – it was very early indeed.
She knew the Duke was worried about not wasting time and reaching Larissa as soon as possible.
But he was allowing her to visit Delos.
She dressed herself in a few minutes, not taking any notice of her hair that hung loosely over her shoulders.
Then in flat-heeled shoes she ran out of her cabin and up on deck, where she saw that they were anchored in a small bay.
There was a seaman to help her down a rope ladder into a small boat where two more seamen were waiting to row her to the shore.
It was only a short distance to Delos and apart fr
