Though he would have been appalled at the many and various ways in which her imagination suggested he should be kept there.
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She was almost aggressively cheerful next morning at breakfast and for the time that they lingered at the oasis after the baggage camels had started. Arnold was morose and silent, and she exchanged most of her badinage with a Wilson who seemed more smitten with her domineering ways by the second.
At that point, Wilson was superintending the packing of the tiffin basket that would accompany her in charge of the man who had been selected as her personal servant, and who was waiting, with Mustafa Ali and about ten men, to ride with her.
Not for the first time as the older man watched her, he wondered why he had fallen so deeply into her thrall he could allow hi
