CHAPTER FOURBecause she was beginning to feel terrified at what lay ahead for her, Lavinia took no interest in the final effort of packing.
Everyone in the Palace was running from room to room to find something that they thought she ought to take with her.
But she herself stood either gazing thoughtfully out into the garden or actually walking round it.
She knew, because she was intelligent, that she was taking a dangerous step into the unknown.
At the same time she felt that there was no possible alternative.
When eventually the whole entourage was ready to leave, she put on the pretty hat she had chosen to travel to Dubrik in.
Having said goodbye to her mother and with her father beside her they drove down the drive of the Palace and the sentries saluted.
Everyone was waving to he
