I was unmarried and had frequently intercepted pitying glances on that account and had heard myself referred to as ‘an old maid’ and ‘on the shelf. I was twenty-eight and, in my dun-coloured travelling cloak and felt hat of the same colour, calculated to be useful rather than decorative, and after having travelled all night I certainly looked my age. My appearance I felt for the first time in my life was in my favour. I should let no one know how much this commission meant to me. What happened to me when I reached the castle depended on others but I promised myself I should act with dignity, and behave as though I were not desperately anxious, hiding from them the fact that when I thought of what my future could be if they rejected me, I faced panic. You could go straight back even now.”ĭuring the journey I had crossed the Channel the night before and had been travelling all day I had been mustering my courage, assuring myself that I was no foolish girl but a sensible woman who had decided to take a certain action and was going to carry it through. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequentĮven as the branch-line train came into the station halt I was saying to myself: “It’s not too late. Phototypeset by Input Typesetting Ltd, London Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Collins Sons Sc Co. Ltd 1967 First issued in Fontana Paperbacks 1969 Thirtieth impression July 1990 Mistress of Mellyn Kirkland Revels Bride of Pendorric The Legend of the Seventh Virgin Menfreya The Queen’s Confession The Shivering Sands The Secret Woman The Shadow of the Lynx On the Night of the Seventh Moon The Curse of the Kings The House of a Thousand Lanterns Lord of the Far Island The Pride of the Peacock The Devil on Horseback My Enemy the Queen The Spring of the Tiger The Mask of the Enchantress The Judas Kiss The Demon Lover The Time of the Hunter’s Moon The Landower Legacy The Road to Paradise Island Secret for a Nightingale The Silk Vendetta The India Fanįirst published by William Collins Sons & Co.
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