Desert barbarian

the long version

When Marie Brinton remarked casually that she would be interested to learn more about the Arab way of life, she had hardly expected that within minutes a handsome Arab would appear from nowhere and sweep her off on his horse into the desert. But that, unbelievably, was what happened! But the Arab was not what he seemed, Marie emerged unscathed from her adventure - and that, she supposed with relief, was that. But it wasn't! For she was to meet her desert barbarian again - thousands of miles away this time, in northern India - and by this time she was well and truly in love with him. But he was as far out of her reach as the Arab chieftain she had imagined him to be…