Fire in the Blood by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782131731
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2012-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“Where are you travelling to next?” Pandia asked.

They had talked for hours and it seemed as if the time had passed so swiftly that she had not asked Lord Silvester half the things she wanted to know.

“In a week or ten days,” he replied, “I am going to Tafraout.”

He saw the question in her eyes and, before she could speak, he added,

“It is in the Ammein Valley in Southern Morocco and is, I believe, one of the three most beautiful places in Africa that has never yet been seen by an Anglo-Saxon.”

“How exciting for you!” Pandia exclaimed. “How I wish I could come with you!”

She spoke without thinking, then as she saw the strange expression in his eyes she blushed and said quickly,

“Nevertheless, I will dream about it, as I dream of other places I shall never see.”

Then, as she felt once again he might say that as her husband was rich he could afford to take her anywhere she wished to go she, added quickly,

“What is your book to be called?”

“I have not yet decided upon the title,” he said, “but I think Forbidden Places would be appropriate.”

“Forbidden?” she asked him. “Where else is included?” “Tibet was the most obvious,” he replied, “and of course, Mecca.”

“You have been to Mecca? You have really been there?”

She knew that if any white man was discovered trying to enter the Holy of Holies of the Muslim world, he would be, put to death and felt frightened at the risks Lord Silvester must have run.

“I found it a most interesting and enlightening journey,” he said quietly.

Pandia was just about to ask him to tell her about it when she was aware that it was growing late.

Without thinking, almost as if the words came involuntarily to her lips, she said,

“I suppose we should go to bed.”

She rose as she spoke and was surprised when Lord Silvester replied,

“I think that is an excellent idea!”

She had been expecting him to protest that he did not want her to leave him and now she thought she must have behaved as Selene would never have done and overstayed her welcome.

Because she was feeling embarrassed she walked towards the door and after a moment he followed her.

There was a night-footman in the hall, who rose from his chair as soon as they appeared and as Pandia reached the staircase, she said to him,

“Goodnight!”

“Goodnight, my Lady!”

She was aware that Lord Silvester was just behind her and thought it would perhaps seem strange if they walked upstairs together.

Standing on the bottom step, she held out her hand. “Goodnight, my Lord!” she said. “Thank you for the most interesting and exciting evening I have ever spent.” He took her hand in his and she felt his vibrations so strongly that they seemed almost to tingle up her arm. Then hurriedly, because she was shy, she went up the stairs without looking back.

When she reached her bedroom, she did not have to ring the bell because Emma was already there waiting for her.

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