CHAPTER SIXBy the time they reached Lucknow, Rex knew that he was in love as he had never been in love before in his whole life.
He had been aware of it first at the moment when, standing in Quenella’s compartment, she had suddenly realised that she was wearing only a transparent lawn nightgown and that he was naked to the waist.
Like her Rex had been so intent on altering E 17’s Seventeen’s appearance and getting him away before the train started that he had not thought of Quenella except as an assistant to do his bidding.
Then, when they were alone together and he saw by the expression on her face that she was shy of him as a man, he was vividly aware of her as a woman.
An uncontrollable impulse swept over him to pull her into his arms and kiss her passionately.
He could feel the bl
