CHAPTER SEVENWhen Tarina got back to the yacht, she went to her cabin feeling as though the world had turned upside down and she had no idea what she could do about it.
She only knew that her whole being went out to the Marquis because she loved him.
At the same time her mind told her that what he was envisaging and suggesting was wrong and wicked and she must have nothing to do with him.
Then her whole body became a battleground and there was a war in her breast, which seemed to tear her apart.
‘I love him!’ she whispered in the silence of her small cabin. ‘But he will never – understand that I cannot – behave like Lady Millicent. It would horrify Papa and Mama!’
She was not certain exactly what it was that the Marquis was suggesting to her, except that in some way he wanted her to b
