Attila kissed him affectionately before going to her own bedroom.
She knew that the King was feeling better already because he was not taking the doctors’ medicine and because Father Jozsef would have blessed him.
‘I cannot think why we waited so long and listened to what those stupid doctors had to say,’ she said to herself. ‘It is all my fault, I should have remembered Mama’s herbs earlier and not been frightened by the doctors.’
It took her some time to go to sleep.
*
As she had not drawn back her bedroom curtains, the first gleam of light in the sky woke her.
It was dawn and Father Jozsef would be waiting for her.
After her lady’s maid had left her last night, Attila had put out the clothes she was going to wear to travel in.
She had carried in her large bag and case from the b
