CHAPTER FIVE
The funeral was very impressive in the small but charming early Byzantine Kapnikarea Church.
Built in the tenth century in the shape of a cross, its cupola was supported by four long columns.
Avila found herself responding to the beauty of the music, the fragrance of the incense and the seven silver lights hanging in front of the screen behind which lay the sanctuary.
The coffin had mounds of flowers piled around it.
Prince Darius had told Avila that anyone of any importance in Athens would be present at the funeral.
She was very glad that she had her black bonnet with its long veil over her face.
She could look at the people around her without them being able to see her at all closely.
She had never heard a choir singing in Greek before and she thought that the beauty
