CHAPTER SIXMimosa felt elated from the moment she awoke the next morning.
It was very early, but she jumped up out of bed and dressed.
She packed the few things she felt that she would need while she was away at Thuburbo Maius.
When she came downstairs, she was not surprised to find that the Duke was already having breakfast.
He rose as she entered the room and then, as she sat down and Jacques hurried to bring her dishes from the kitchen, he said,
“You are quite certain that this is not going to be too arduous for you?”
The way he spoke told Mimosa without words that he had learnt from somebody that she had been kidnapped.
This was not surprising, but at the same time she felt embarrassed because she was now acting yet another lie.
The Duke was clearly being very careful not to re
