Now she fully understood exactly what Sarah was asking her to do.
“I just cannot do anything so crazy,” she said. “To begin with the Earl and anyone staying on the yacht would know that I was not as old as I pretended to be.”
“Why should they guess it?” Sarah interrupted her before she could say anything more. “If you acted the part properly and were dressed appropriately, there would be no reason to believe that you were not thirty, or even a little older, and naturally a widow, as that would be the reason why your husband could not accompany you.”
“So how could I do that?” Orlina asked. “I might manage it on the stage for perhaps half-an-hour, but not for several days or perhaps two or three weeks.”
“You can do it! Of course you can!” Sarah insisted. “Because I was so certain that yo
