chapter threeDressing for dinner, Zorina was still wondering if there was any way that she could tell Rudolf why she was unable to meet him tomorrow morning.
She imagined him arriving early at Hampton Court Palace and then he would be looking out of the window as he was doing the first time that she had bumped into him.
He would be finding it difficult to understand that she was not coming to meet him again.
‘Why did I not find out where he was staying when I had the chance?’ she asked herself a thousand times.
There was no answer and she tried instead to be as excited as her mother wanted her to be at wearing her new gown.
Princess Louise had made the gown very skilfully and it was exceedingly attractive.
The bodice fitted tightly and revealed the tininess of her waist. Chiffon trim
