Lady Violet laughed again.
“You are quite hopeless! I cannot imagine what your father will say.”
“He will say it all to me in double measure when he returns home! So in the meantime please just allow me to enjoy myself in my own way. I am trying to think how I can undertake my travels in reality, instead of having to do them in my mind and by reading books.”
“The trouble with you is that you read too much, my dear. I was absolutely astonished the last time I came to stay here and saw the number of new books you had brought into the library.”
“Some of them are extremely interesting. There was one volume on South America which has made me determined that sooner or later I must visit that continent even though I may have to go disguised as a llama!”
“Now you are just being preposterous,”
