Chapter Two
Sitting in the swaying railway carriage Shikara thought with satisfaction that she had evaded her uncle and was now free.
At the same time she thought that she would not feel really safe until the ship that was to carry her to Egypt had left Southampton.
Hignet had procured her a reserved compartment to herself, which actually was next to the one that the Marquis was travelling in, also alone.
She had been provided with a foot-warmer, a rug, and already she had sampled the hot soup and tea in her hamper from the containers wrapped in flannel.
The carriages on the train were new and they were certainly superior to many of those that she had travelled in with her father in other parts of the world.
But despite Lady Sarah’s fur-lined cape it was very cold. Shikara felt that
