“It is an adventure,” Tilda said in a low voice, “and I shall never – forget it.”
“Are you sure about that?”
“Quite – quite sure.”
But for some reason Tilda did not understand she found it hard to look into his eyes.
They talked all through the afternoon.
They both liked music and Rudolph described the enormous success Wagner had achieved in Bavaria.
They had both read many of the same authors and were intrigued by Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
While they found that they had so much in common, Tilda had the feeling that they were in a way duelling with each other.
She was concealing secrets from Rudolph and she thought that he too had secrets he was keeping from her.
She wondered if they concerned Mitzi, but she was sure that he was far too clever to tell her anything he did not w
