CHAPTER FOURHaving discussed it all with Aisha, Lord Kenington went down to dinner early to find his friends.
“We must all sit together,” he suggested, “as I feel sure that you don’t want to sit at the Captain’s table.”
“Certainly not,” the Countess replied. “Of course we want to be with you, Charles.”
Lord Kenington lowered his voice.
“I have a secret to tell you,” he said, “and I am sure you will keep it until we arrive in India.”
“What is it?” the Countess asked with interest.
“I have with me and you have just met her, a very pretty girl who actually is engaged to my cousin Jack.”
“Engaged!” the Countess exclaimed.
“It’s being kept a complete secret until they can be together and actually she has not even told her father who she is meeting in Calcutta.”
“Oh, I do understand now
