It made the pool seem more mysterious and more like a Fairytale.
There were trees that towered high, dark and protecting and the first thing that the Duke saw between Elfa and himself was what appeared to be a dazzling, shaft of moonlight not pointing up in the air towards the moon, but shining on the ground beside the pool.
Then at a second glance he realised that it was Elfa’s gown that she had worn at dinner and she was standing naked by the pool.
He stood still looking at her while the moonlight on her body made her appear immortal, a nymph from the water from which he realised she had just emerged.
She was very slight and slender and lovely although he did not feel for the moment that she was a woman whom he desired.
Instead she was something ethereal to which he responded not wi
