The day seemed endless and Valeda found her voice growing hoarser and hoarser as she kept Mirabelle amused with stories.
She had explored their prison and found it was in fact two rooms, which she was sure were the King’s private bedroom and sitting room.
The bed was certainly very regal, draped in blue velvet, with the Royal coat-of-arms emblazoned on the headboard.
It was a large, comfortable-looking bed and beside it was a small divan, which had been brought in, she thought, specially to accommodate Mirabelle.
There were no ornaments or objets d’art and the commodes and tables in both rooms were bare.
objets d’artValeda guessed that a regular procedure was carried out at the end of each Royal visit, when anything portable that might be stolen was put away safely until the King and
