CHAPTER SIXAs they sat at dinner in the dining room, the Marquis thought that Mina looked unusually pale but very beautiful.
He had been thinking as he dressed what a shock it must have been for her to hear the doe being shot and to be there at the very moment of her dying.
But her behaviour was in striking contrast to the dramatics enacted by Lady Bartlett and a long line of women before her.
Now, because he was determined to erase the unhappiness from her mind, he deliberately talked of things that interested them most, including the foreign lands he had visited and the sights he had seen in various parts of the world that were connected with intriguing history.
He spoke about the Sphinx, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Taj Mahal, which he thought was one of the most beautiful
