“We will talk about it later, now I want you really close to me.”
He kissed her very gently.
Then he disappeared behind the bed where she thought that there must be another room.
She knew what he wanted.
Quickly she slipped off her pretty going-away dress and put it down on a chair.
She then saw lying on the bed a pretty diaphanous nightgown that must have come from her trousseau earlier in the day.
She slipped into the bed and now her heart was beating and she felt a wild excitement creeping up over her.
From the moment they had set foot on the Island of Delos she had felt again the strange quivers hanging in the air that had been there before.
Outside on the pool the sun had gone.
Now she thought that there would be a reflection from the stars up above.
Then the Prince came int
