“So you were left outside,” the Duke remarked, “and it is something I have often been myself so I know exactly how you felt.”
Devinia did not reply and he went on,
“I had never been abroad and it was not until I had taken my father’s place that I was able to travel as I had always wanted to do.”
“Oh, please do tell me about your travels,” Devinia pleaded. “I want to know exactly what you felt when you first visited Greece and, if when you did so, did you feel that the Gods were still there?”
There was silence and just for a minute she thought that the Duke was going to change the subject or perhaps to disillusion her about Greece.
Instead he said,
“I had, of course, read about the gods on Olympus and the Shining Cliffs of Delphi. Like you. I wondered if it was just invented by the
