Alone on a mad journey that she was quite certain would end in disaster.
Perhaps Prince Stefan would fall into love with her and he might beseech her to marry him, while she thought him repulsive and longed to run away.
Then Harry would be annoyed because she would be offending his friend Prince Kraus.
This was another aspect of her situation she had not thought through and it might be a very significant one.
If Harry, Prince Stefan and his brother Prince Kraus were all begging her to save Oldessa, what could she do?
‘I have been a fool,’ she told herself, ‘to even think of coming here. Once they have got hold of me, they will never let me go.’
It flashed through her mind that she might get off at Strasbourg and go home.
Then, as the train rolled on, she knew she could not be a cow
