CHAPTER SIXThe Duc did not answer her.
They were by now driving alongside the Seine.
He suddenly bent forward and told the coachman to draw in between the next two trees.
As they did so, he suggested to Malvina,
“We will walk down the bank and you shall see the Seine from its own level.”
It was something that she had wanted to do when she was at the Convent.
But the nuns had always insisted that the girls should only walk along the Seine on the pavement by the side of the main road.
The Duc helped Malvina down the steps and then they were on a level with the river as it flowed swiftly past them.
There were several huge barges moving on the river and one or two smaller boats.
They stood looking at the scene in silence.
Then the Duc said,
“I always feel when I come here that the r
