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‘No because they are not right for you’

‘What you want to do would cause a schism that would split the island’

‘If you continued to opposeill bring it into the twenty-first century—I fir can never be me That does not mean that I don't care about my homeland and my people I do—passionately—but I no that I can dofrom outside its hierarchy’

'By spreading anarchy, you mean?'

‘By setting up a charitable trust to help those who most need it’ Marco corrected him evenly

There was a certain irony in the fact that, whilst he had refused to wear the heavily decorated forrandfather had hadit now to take his for’s equally elderly valet to finish fastening hiold braid But so that, on this one occasion, he should defer to tradition

The world's media had been alerted to the fact that he intended to make a public speech; TV and radio crews had already arrived and the square below the palace balcony, from which he had chosen to address the people, was already full

How different he felt now compared with the way he had felt when he had first returned Then, he had been filled with a fierce determination to fulfil his destiny; it had ridden him and possessed him

Thishe had woken up with a sense of release, a sense of having gained back a part of hi

The valet handed him his plu slowly andhis entrance to when the military band broke into the Nirolian national anthem Then he stepped forward

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

EMILY stopped outside A shopto look at her reflection and push her hair off her face It was a sullenly hot day and her back was aching She had been to see a client, but had hardly been able to focus on what theto her because of her dread of what the cardiac specialist ht say Part of her wanted to rush the appointment and the specialists opinion of her baby's future forward, whilst another part of her wanted to push it away She was standing outside an electrical store that sold televisions Its ere filled with a variety of large screens She glanced absently at them and then froze in disbelief when she realised she was looking at Marco A camera homed in on his face, and then panned to the crowd in the square beneath him

What was happening? E: Marcoof Niroli She wanted to ignore the screens and walk on past the shop, but instead she found that she was going inside