In other words she was a lady and, although she was travelling alone, she was not what he had assumed. Nor would she behave in anything but a ladylike way.
‘I have made a fool of myself,’ Arthur Watkins told himself, as he deliberately walked away from Aisha. She gave a sigh of relief.
“Forget him,” Lord Kenington said. “It’s something that happens to pretty girls all over the world and you should never think about it again.”
“Now you are reading my thoughts, as I told you to do. Incidentally it’s an experience I will not forget easily.”
“Of course you will. When you are engrossed with India and only India, and perhaps with the charming young gentlemen who will be praising you to the skies from the moment you appear.”
“I only hope that’s true, but I think it’s unlikely. Now at last we
