Chapter FourIt seemed incredible to Lord Sheldon that anyone could be so elusive.
He wanted to talk with Azalea – he wanted to go on trying to solve the mystery about her and the secrets which he felt he could almost see hiding in her dark eyes, and yet he could not get near her.
From the moment she had run away from him after they had talked together on deck, she seemed to vanish.
Lord Sheldon had travelled on many ships and he had found it almost impossible to escape from the importunate women who sought his company and, when possible, his embraces.
He had often cursed because a ship was so small that there was nowhere to hide and he felt like a hunted fox. But Azalea, apparently, found it quite easy to avoid him. He discovered from the steward in the Dining Saloon that either she ha
