Chapter 12: Effects

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌⁠The next day, when Colonel Estcourt sent to know if the Princess Zairoff would receive him, he was informed she was ill, and could see no one.

Feeling strangely disinclined for mere ordinary society, he ordered his horse to be brought round and spent the greater portion of the day in long, fierce gallops over the miles of stretching sand that framed in the bay.

The sky was chill and grey; a cold win