Chapter Three-1

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Chapter ThreeFor the first three days Shikara kept to the arrangement they had made. She appeared at luncheon and dinner and, as soon as the meal was over, she curtseyed to the Marquis and returned to her own cabin. Hignet had found her a place up on deck which was out of the wind and where she could sit without getting in the Marquis’s way or even being seen by him. At mealtimes she was witty and provocative and the Marquis when he went to bed found himself remembering some of the things she had said and being amused by them. He could not remember ever before arguing so fiercely with a woman on abstract subjects. He found himself continually in disagreement with her, for instance when she maintained that women should be allowed to do things without being sponsored or patronised by a

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