CHAPTER FOURWhen they went up the stairs to change for dinner, Yolisa was surprised to find that they were in the Royal Apartments.
She realised that it was so because there were two sentries on duty outside the door and she had not seen them in the other parts of the Palace.
She was aware, without his saying so, that her uncle was amused.
The Royal Apartments were more spectacular than the rest of the Palace and they were situated at one end of the huge building.
As they were taken upstairs by an aide-de-camp, Yolisa could see that the pictures were even finer and more spectacular than any she had seen elsewhere in the Palace.
It seemed to be particularly quiet and, almost as if the aide-de-camp knew that she was surprised, he told her,
“Only His Royal Highness’s special friends sta
