CHAPTER FIVEAlexander rose from the table where they had been working.
He bowed to the Princess and then to Lord Victor.
“Very good!” he said. “Very good today. Am most honoured and proud you do so well.”
He then left the cabin and Lord Victor remarked,
“He is right. Do you realise that in just over ten days we really have progressed a long way in this appallingly difficult language?”
“That is true,” the Princess said. “But I don’t like Alexander. He has hard eyes.”
Lord Victor smiled and, almost without thinking, stated,
“While your eyes are soft and very beautiful!”
The Princess looked surprised at the compliment, but he went on as if he was talking to himself,
“If we could stop at Athens, I would take you to the Acropolis and compare you to a Greek Goddess!”
“I would love that
