A Royal Rebuke by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2013-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Alexander rose from the table where they had been working.

He bowed to the Princess and then to Lord Victor.

“Very good!” he said. “Very good today. Am most honoured and proud you do so well.”

He then left the cabin and Lord Victor remarked,

“He is right. Do you realise that in just over ten days we really have progressed a long way in this appallingly difficult language?”

“That is true,” the Princess said. “But I don’t like Alexander. He has hard eyes.”

Lord Victor smiled and, almost without thinking, stated,

“While your eyes are soft and very beautiful!”

The Princess looked surprised at the compliment, but he went on as if he was talking to himself,

“If we could stop at Athens, I would take you to the Acropolis and compare you to a Greek Goddess!”

“I would love that,” the Princess sighed.

“But as it is impossible,” Lord Victor went on in a rather hard voice, “we must just carry on with our lessons until we arrive in Zararis.”

The Princess was still standing at the table and he made a movement as if he would go towards the door.

She was looking down at the notes that she had made while Alexander was teaching them and then softly she said in a low voice,

“It has been such – fun because we are – doing this – together. It will be very different when I am – a Queen and I have a feeling – that the only people I will have to – talk to will be like – Mr. Orestes.”

Mr. Orestes was the Statesman representing the Prime Minister of Zararis, who had been exceedingly boring at breakfast on the first day.

Once, however, the sea began to get rough, he had disappeared from sight, like the two Ladies-in-Waiting and the Ambassador.

All three of them had remained in their cabins until the ship had passed through the Bay of Biscay.

The sea had in fact been very turbulent, but at the same time the sun was shining and the Princess had enjoyed watching the waves.

When they broke over the bow of the ship, she clapped her hands and laughed and she and Lord Victor had only been able to snatch a little exercise when it was momentarily calmer.

When they reached the Mediterranean, the two Baronesses reappeared.

They looked white and shaken and moaned that they had suffered from severe seasickness all the time they had been absent.

Mr. Orestes on reappearing had not admitted to being ill. He merely announced that he had been working on a report he was making on Princess Sydella’s Royal blood.

When he told them this, the Princess said,

“I am very flattered that you should take so much trouble, Mr. Orestes, but is it really so necessary?”

“Very necessary indeed, Your Royal Highness!” he replied in a serious tone. “The people of Zararis will wish to know exactly how close is your connection with Her Majesty Queen Victoria.”

He made the last words sound like a trumpet call and Lord Victor could not refrain from saying,

“You will find a great number of people in England have traces of Royal blood in their Family Tree.

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