“That is exactly what we thought,” Lord Langford replied.
“So if you cannot produce a false Princess,” Yolisa said, “and it certainly cannot be me, what can you do?”
“We are going to be a little more subtle,” her uncle continued. “You are coming with me to Kavalla as my niece, Lady Yolisa Ford.”
“Well, no one will believe I am going to marry the Prince,” Yolisa laughed.
“That is just what they have to do.”
Yolisa stared at him.
“It’s impossible.”
“Not if you play the part I plan for you,” he replied, “so listen to what I have to say.”
“I am listening, of course, I am listening,” Yolisa said slightly irritably.
She was, however, entirely bewildered and could not imagine in any way what her uncle was trying to tell her.
“What you will do,” Lord Langford said slowly, “is come to Ka
