CHAPTER SEVENThey arrived at Brindisi quite late that evening and Malca said that she would leave first thing in the morning.
“You must promise me,” Caterina said, “that you will let me know when you arrive and thank you for all your wonderful help. And do persuade Henriet to tell me where she will be. She knows that I will not tell anyone and I don’t want to lose touch with her.”
“Of course not, Princess, and I’m sure she won’t want to lose touch with you. After all you two have been together ever since you were babies.”
Caterina then remembered that her Nanny had been good friends with Malca.
‘I must not lose Henriet now,’ she told herself, ‘when I am going to a strange country where I will have no friends of my own.’
She tried not to let the thought depress her, equally she felt th
