CHAPTER SIXYolisa woke with a start.
For a brief moment she could not think what was happening.
Then she realised that she was in bed and had been asleep.
Before she had retired to bed she had pulled back the curtains so that she could see the stars.
The brilliant moonshine was pouring in through the windows turning everything into silver.
She stared at it for a moment.
Then she was aware that it had been a voice that had called her.
She knew, almost as if someone had told her, that the Prince was in danger.
Without considering or thinking of what she should do, she jumped out of bed.
She went towards the door leading into the corridor and then stopped.
She could hardly go to the Prince’s State Apartment wearing only her nightgown.
On the chaise longue by the dressing table were
