By this time they had reached the entrance into his apartments.
As the sentries came to attention, he walked in and the door closed behind him.
As she went to her room, Latasha was wondering what he wanted to talk to her about.
She realised that what she really wanted to hear him say was just impossible.
Then, as she reached her own room, an idea shot through her mind.
Supposing, recognising that he could not marry her, Prince Kraus proposed something different?
It could be what the Comte had wanted to propose in the Orient Express.
The idea was startling and unexpected.
Latasha walked to the window.
Looking out below her, she did not see the beauty of the flowers, nor the water in the fountain shimmering in the sunshine.
Instead she could visualise the long years she might be fo
