All the time his eyes were on her.
When she came to the end of her account, she said,
“Now I have a great many questions I would like to ask Your Royal Highness about your own lovely country. I have never seen anything so beautiful as when we drove from the station to the Palace and the flowers thrilled me.”
“As indeed they thrilled my mother and it was she who insisted that the Royal Palace should be surrounded by flowers – and that if we planted them, the people in the town must plant flowers too.”
“Do they appreciate them?” enquired Latasha.
“I think so. We are known here as the ‘Kingdom of Flowers’ amongst our friends and I can only hope and pray it will be left as it is.”
Latasha knew that he was thinking of the Russians.
Although she thought it was too soon, she could not he
