CHAPTER FOURVanda was introduced to the crew as they moved around the yacht. They all seemed pleased when she shook them by the hand and told them how interested she was in what they were doing.
The two women who were to be her Ladies-in-Waiting curtsied correctly and looked relieved when Vanda told them that she hoped she would not need them very often on the voyage.
“I am having a complete holiday,” she confided, “because I have had a very difficult time lately at home and I need to rest.”
Everyone thought this was a good idea.
Vanda only hoped, when they laughed so much at dinner, that they did not think she had been making a mountain out of a molehill.
The sea was, as usual, very rough in the Bay of Biscay and luckily Vanda had always believed that she was a good sailor. She prove
