CHAPTER EIGHTSelina was too astonished and horrified to speak.
The Marquis instinctively urged the horses on and they galloped along the high road overlooking the port.
They sped on until they were concealed by the fence that cut off the port from the road. Then the Marquis drew in the horses, calling to Lovall as he did so.
“Well done! Thank God you warned us. I never for one moment expected we would find anyone here.”
“They obviously worked out exactly what we were – going to do,” Selina sighed in a trembling voice.
“The difficulty now is how to reach The Mermaid without being seen.”
Lovall got out of the wagon. Going to the fence, he pulled a loose board aside so he could see directly into the harbour below them.
There were only a few ships in port. The Marquis’s yacht was an
