CHAPTER EIGHTJustina spent a peaceful afternoon sketching Valletta from the upper deck.
Soon after she began her sketch, there was a flurry of activity as a woman dressed in the height of fashion arrived at the quayside accompanied by a large amount of luggage.
Justina admired the woman’s severely tailored and immaculate cream linen skirt and jacket, trimmed with a great deal of dark brown braid. A mass of dark brown hair was arranged into waves gathered into a complicated knot at the back of her head and topped with a dashing small pill box hat decorated with feathers.
This was a lady of considerable style.
Justina returned to her sketching.
That evening, with the ship once again at sea, its engines throbbing as it thrust through the calm waters towards the Suez Canal, Justina was su
