Chapter SixElmina awoke with a feeling of happiness.
For a moment she thought that it was time to get up and then realised it was still dark and there was no light coming from between the curtains.
She therefore lay thinking of how much she had enjoyed the first week of her marriage and how wonderful it had been.
She had had no idea that it could be so entrancing to be alone with a man as clever and intelligent as the Marquis. Moreover, so many interesting things had happened that she hardly had time to think during the day.
When she went to bed at night, she fell asleep almost as soon as her head touched the pillow.
The second day of their marriage, as if the Marquis had been thinking it over, he said,
“I am not only intrigued by the fact that you have learnt Karate but also feel th
