“Do you think you will be safe?” Lord Lanwood asked anxiously.
“I am sure that I will be because I can speak as they speak,” Isa replied. “After all I am only a woman and they have little use for women in the particular ‘work’ they are doing, if that is what you want to call it.”
“I will leave it in your most capable hands,” Lord Lanwood told her.
When they went aboard the ferry and he asked for a cabin, he was delighted to find that one was available.
“I will join you later, my Lord” Isa said, “when he has settled down. By the way his name is Pierre Marché.”
“I presume that you looked at his passport,” Lord Lanwood remarked. “I did not think to ask him his name and undoubtedly I would not have been able to pronounce it anyway!”
“It’s a very simple name,” Isa laughed.
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