The Love Light of Apollo by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788673600
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd
Published: 2020-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Avila woke in the morning with a growing feeling of excitement that today was going to be extremely significant for her. She was not quite sure why or how, but she felt certain that it would be.

She had gone to bed dreaming of Prince Darius.

She thought as she came downstairs that he looked even more handsome than he had in her dreams.

She had been told when her maid called her that Lady Bedstone was very sorry but she did not feel well enough to get out of bed this morning.

Avila had gone to see her in her bedroom and found that there was really nothing wrong with her.

The truth was that Lady Bedstone was afraid that she might have to walk some distance or perhaps climb up the side of a hill.

“I know what men are like,” she grumbled, “when they are showing off something they prize. Quite frankly, ma’am, I am too old for it.”

“I think you are being very sensible,” Avila replied, “and I will tell you all about it when I come back.”

When she was dressed, she found among Princess Marigold’s black gowns the dress that she had worn when she had arrived at The Traveller’s Rest in Tilbury.

It was thin and white. She put it on, thinking that she was unlikely to see anyone except for the Prince today and there was a small simple straw hat to go with it.

She still did not know where they were going.

Because she knew that the Prince was expecting her to ask questions, she deliberately did not show any curiosity.

‘If he wants to seem mysterious,’ she told herself ‘then I will let him be up to the last moment.’

They drove for only a very short distance to a small bay where she saw that there was a yacht moored.

It was quite a small yacht and, as the Prince helped her out of the chaise, having handed the reins to a groom who had sat behind, he said,

“This is the yacht I use when I am visiting the Islands. I should have told you before that I have been made a Guardian of several Islands, the most outstanding being the one we are now going to.”

“That is, of course, what I am all agog to hear about,” Avila started to enthuse.

He was smiling as he observed,

“You have contained your curiosity very well and I do promise you that you will not be disappointed.”

It was a glorious day with the sun shining brightly and the sea quiet and still.

As soon as they started to move away from the shore, Avila stood at the rail looking out over the Aegean Sea.

It was so lovely that she thought perhaps the Prince was just taking her on a tour of the nearby Islands.

Then as they moved through what seemed a transparent blue of the sea ahead, the Prince quizzed her,

“Have you not guessed where I am taking you?”

“I should be afraid to do so,” Avila said. “You have been so mysterious that you would not be disappointed to find that I have guessed wrong.

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