Soon she, Ariana Dancer, would be married to a Prince who adored her!
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The arduous journey across Europe did not dampen her excitement.
Indeed, as the miles passed by, she began to paint for herself a rosier and rosier picture of the life that awaited her, as opposed to the life that she had so far led.
It was Bonnie who soon began to lose heart.
The barely heated inn rooms, the lumpy mattresses, the strange food, the interminable hours spent in railway carriages or cold coaches, quelled her appetite for change.
She was constantly sick and bad-tempered and then Ariana found that it was she who had to look after her maid rather than the other way round.
It was only when they changed coaches for the last time in sight of the tall mountains of Northern Albania that Ariana’s resolve fa
