“Oh, Papa, I am so pleased to see you!” she sighed. “I have been terrified ever since I arrived that something dreadful had happened to you.”
“Don’t let’s talk about it, dearest, just tell me what is happening at home and how you managed to come here on your own. It was something I would not have allowed if I had known about it.”
Aisha told him what had happened on board the P & O Liner and how she had wisely asked Lord Kenington if she could be seen talking to him and how he had been extremely kind and then had rescued her from the awful Arthur Watkins.
The Major was listening attentively, but she knew he was angry that such horrors should have happened to her simply because she was alone.
“You should have waited, dearest, until the Dean was better,” he said finally.
“I so much wante
