“How can you say such marvellous things to me – and which I long to hear?”
“As it happens I am very surprised at myself!” the Marquis smiled. “But then I have never felt in my whole life the way I feel for you now.”
“I am so – lucky – so very – very lucky,” Tarina said, “and I shall – always be grateful to the Karma which brought us together.”
She paused before she added very solemnly,
“It was my Karma that took me to Betty at exactly the right moment, when she was very excited at receiving your invitation to travel on The Sea Siren.”
The Marquis did not speak, he merely moved his mouth over the softness of her skin.
Then, as if he did not wish Tarina to think too much about why he had chosen his party to go with him to Siam, he kissed her.
At the touch of his lips they were once ag
