Chapter 7Alida found it impossible to sleep.
She lay in bed feeling herself thrill and thrill again as she thought of her waltz with the Prince and the strange wild feelings he had evoked when his lips touched hers.
She had not realised that a kiss could be something so alive or that every nerve in one’s body would pulsate with the wonder and glory of it.
She had known when he touched her – and she thought now that she must have known it since the first moment they met – that she was truly a part of him.
This was love!
This was what she had always dreamt she would feel one day for a man and now it had happened!
Then, as the splendour of it encompassed her like a shining light, she remembered that the Prince belonged to Mary!
It felt like diving from the very heights of Heaven down i
