Love in the Clouds by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2013-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

“I think,” Colonel Wylie had written, “it would be a mistake to take any further treasures of such sort from the Nepalese. Sir Brian Hodgson, as you well know, gave a great number of the Sanskrit manuscripts both to the Royal Asiatic Society and to the India Office. I cannot help thinking that future generations will think these valuable and unique works should remain in Nepal where they belong.”

It was because Lord Frome had persuaded the Viceroy to overrule Colonel Wylie on this point that he was determined he would not give the British Resident any possible excuse to complain about him personally.

To arrive in Kathmandu with a young girl whom he could merely explain away as an authority on Sanskrit would, if repeated, which it would be in Viceregal circles, make him the subject of raised eyebrows.

It might also invite a polite, thinly veiled rebuke for letting down the prestige of the British aristocracy in a backward country like Nepal.

Furious at having to stoop to such a deception, but knowing that it was necessary if he was to continue his journey, Lord Frome had surrendered himself to the inevitable.

He loathed what he had to do and hated Chandra quite unreasonably because she was instrumental in what he thought was an undoubted humiliation.

As he finished the glass of whisky in his hand, Lord Frome realised that the servants were still waiting and there was no sign of Chandra.

“Tell the Lady Sahib that dinner is ready!” he ordered.

“I have knocked on her door, Lord Sahib,” his personal servant replied, “but there was no answer.”

Lord Frome frowned.

Was the damned woman being deliberately difficult, he asked himself, keeping him waiting while she titivated herself up. Or was she too tired to come to dinner? In which case she might have the decency to say so and he could get on with his meal.

He was about to give another order, then he changed his mind and walked from the dining room across the passage to Chandra’s door.

He knocked sharply, but there was no answer and now, wondering if perhaps she had gone roaming as she had the night before, he lifted the latch and looked inside.

For a moment he thought that no one was there, then to his surprise he saw Chandra lying on the floor almost at his feet.

He looked down at her thinking she must have fainted and then he saw that she was asleep.

Her hands were tucked under her cheek and with the exception of her hat she was still wearing the clothes she had worn all day.

Lord Frome looked at her for a long moment, at the long lashes, dark against her pale skin, the strange colour of her hair that waved on either side of her oval forehead and the perfectly curved lips which seemed to have a faint smile on them.

He saw now that she was sleeping, her breath coming slowly and evenly, and he realised that it was the sleep of utter exhaustion.

Bending down he picked her up in his arms and laid her on top of the quilt on the bed, her head against the pillow.

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