“I must let you sleep, my darling. We are leaving quite early tomorrow and we will be riding.”
“Where are we – going?”
“There are many places I wish to show you, Holy places, places that are not known to the ordinary visitors to Naini Tal.”
“I shall love that.”
“They can only be reached on horseback.”
“Can we really go alone?”
“If you are prepared to risk meeting the spirits and the Gods who live in the mountains, then I promise you that there will be no need for any escort.”
Quenella gave a little sigh of sheer happiness.
“Oh, Rex, I never thought anything so – wonderful could be – waiting for me, but I would not have you risk being in – danger even to make me – happy”
“You are thinking of me?”
“Who else?” she asked. “There is no one else. You fill the whole world, the sky, the
