Chapter TwoThea lay on her bed in the darkness thinking out her plan in detail.
She would take Mercury and disappear until after King Otho had departed.
Her father would be furiously angry, but it would take him considerable time to set up another State Visit.
She was well aware that a visiting Monarch from another country expected an enormous amount of kow-towing, special banquets and Receptions from his hosts.
She had always found that all this pompous and stiff protocol was incredibly dull and such occasions, however, always delighted her father and gave him a chance to show off what Kostas could really do.
Now, as soon as dinner was finished, he would go to his study to make his plans first for the Reception for King Otho at the frontier and then there would be a series of what Th
