Chapter 2The Marquis awoke when he heard the anchor being raised and a few minutes later the yacht began to heel over as the sails were set and caught the wind.
He was aware that his head ached and his mouth felt dry and he knew that last night, contrary to his usual habit, he had drunk too much.
First the brandy had been surprisingly good at the inn on the quay and secondly, when he had returned to the yacht, he felt so depressed and incensed with life in general that he had sent the Steward for a decanter of his best claret, which he had drunk until the early hours of the morning.
Then, when he thought of last night, he remembered that he had brought a woman aboard with him and he asked himself if he had gone insane.
How, after all that had happened, after an experience that should h
