She closed her eyes.
Then looking up at the stars she thought that they were telling her what she must do and she dared not disobey them.
Without thinking, driven by a feeling of urgency, of terror and at the same time of love, she opened her cabin door.
Everything was quiet and dark as she turned the handle of Lord Warburton’s door and went inside.
He was awake, thinking of Corena and his love, and suddenly he was aware that she was standing only a few feet from him.
The moonlight illuminated her hair as it flowed over her shoulders onto the diaphanous nightgown she wore.
It flashed through his mind that he was seeing a vision of Aphrodite herself and she had come to him.
Then with a little cry Corena ran towards the bed and dropped down on her knees.
“I have – to tell – you!” she
