To her relief, when they were escorted to the front door, she found that the Regent was accompanying them home.
The Lord Chamberlain therefore changed to another carriage and, as the Regent sat opposite her, Zosina felt that if she was not careful her hands would go out towards him and she would be unable to prevent herself from holding onto him.
‘I am frightened!’ she wanted to say, ‘frightened of tomorrow, of having my engagement to the King announced to the world, of knowing that then there will be no going back, no escape and, when I return to Dórsia, it will be as a bride.”
She felt her heart crying out to the Regent with an irrepressible agony and, although he did not look at her, but only at the Queen Mother, she knew he was feeling the same.
There were huge crowds outside the P
