Like all the other cabins in the ship, she learnt later, it was fitted out in satins and the walls were of coloured woods that were very beautiful.
When Sir Henry told her that he had managed at a moment’s notice to provide her with a lady’s maid as far as St. Petersburg, she was also aware how eloquently Lord Charnock must have described her social position.
“I am afraid that my wife is rather annoyed with me for depleting our household, Miss Tiverton,” he said, “but it is important that you should have a woman with you, not only to wait on you but to help preserve the proprieties when you are travelling in a ship in which otherwise there are only men.”
“Please will you thank your wife for me very very sincerely?” Zelina asked him.
“Lord Charnock has told me all about your unselfishne
