Chapter SevenLucia was stunned into silence and while she tried to find her voice she could only stare at the Marquis.
Then he said with a smile,
“I am going for a walk. As we have a lot to say to each other, will you come with me?”
He put out his hand as he spoke, and as she put hers into it, she felt again as if his vibrations joined hers and they were one person.
Just as she was, she went with him up on deck.
There she saw he had obviously given his orders, for a boat was waiting to row them the short distance to the shore.
The ship was anchored in a very attractive bay with a low cliff at the far end of it which, Lucia found when she reached it, had well-cut steps in the rock which made it easy to climb.
First she had to clamber down a rope-ladder into the boat, and the Marquis
