In a strange way he felt that during the weeks that they had been at sea, if she had not actually come to like him she had at least begun to trust him.
In her studies she talked to him quite naturally, as if he was not a man whom she loathed and in the last few days she had begun to laugh and occasionally to joke about things.
‘I must be patient,’ he told himself.
But he knew, as he lay tossing and turning hopelessly through the night, that it was not going to be easy.
*
In Bombay a number of Officials came aboard with messages from the Viceroy and heavily sealed Diplomatic Bags were brought into the cabin to be locked away in one of Rex’s trunks until he had time to open them.
He had decided that they should go on by ship to Calcutta.
The alternative was to take the train across In
