After a moment she said,
“I want to enjoy myself and not have to wonder if you are going to be critical of what I have said or what I have done.”
She hesitated for a moment and then went on,
“In fact, at the moment, you are spoiling what to me is a very exciting and unusual experience.”
There was no answer from Lord Templeton.
When she finally turned round, to her surprise, she found that the breakfast room was now empty.
Having ‘said his say’, as her old Nanny might well have expressed it, Lord Templeton had left the room.
Doubtless in his planning of what lay ahead, he had forgotten her very existence.
Amina stared for just a moment at the door through which he must have just passed without her hearing him.
And then with a shrug of her shoulders she walked towards their bedroom
