CHAPTER SIXThe sea was smooth, it was early in the morning and there was a mist over the horizon, which the sun was just beginning to disperse when the Duke came up on deck.
He was not surprised to see that Magnolia was already there.
He had realised that ever since they had set out in the yacht she seemed to have an energy that he had not noticed before and a new day was an excitement she would not miss.
She was certainly unrestrained in a way that she had never experienced in the past and it amused him to see her reaction to being free from a constraint that had encompassed her ever since she had been born.
To begin with, when he had said they were boarding the yacht for an unknown destination, Magnolia’s lady’s maid flatly refused to go with them.
“Not for all the tea in China woul
