“Actually I don’t think they will find out for the next hour or so that I am not in my room.”
“What will happen then?” the Prince enquired.
“The man they want me to marry is arriving soon and I was told I was to accept him when he proposed to me. As you already realise, I would rather die than marry him!”
“What is wrong with him?”
“He is old, he is repulsive and I know he is cruel to those who serve him.”
The Prince raised his eyebrows.
“He has been married twice already and both his wives have died in somewhat mysterious circumstances. I am really sure in my own mind that he poisoned them or disposed of them in some other dastardly way because he was tired of them as they did not please him.”
“I am finding this very hard to believe, Sacia. How could anyone be so cruel to anyone as
