“I have planned it all down to the smallest detail, including a large number of Union Jacks, which will not only decorate the route to the Cathedral, but will also be in the possession of children who will wave them as you pass by.”
Valona realised it would be a great mistake for the people as well as the Russians not to think she was entirely English.
The battleship was now slowing down and Prince Ajax said,
“Now we are moving into the port – are you both ready to come ashore?”
Valona gave a little cry.
“I must put on my hat!”
She hurried into the Captain’s cabin to find that her clothes had already been packed by the Duke’s valet and taken up on deck.
Her hat was lying waiting for her on the side of the bed and beside it were her handbag and her gloves.
She glanced at herself in
