“I want your help,” she then said. “And please be very careful ‒ what you say.”
He sat down on an armchair and Princess Marigold then started the whole story at the very beginning.
She told him how angry she was when she was told that she had to go to Greece because she knew that Queen Victoria was trying to prevent her marrying the man she loved.
She recognised as she explained what she felt for Prince Holden that Prince Darius was becoming sympathetic to her.
By the time she had finished her story he understood exactly why she had behaved as she had.
He thought it amazingly clever on her part that no one had the slightest idea that she had been with Prince Holden when she should have been in Athens at the funeral.
“If you told Queen Victoria,” Princess Marigold said, “she would be
