“I see their point,” Lord Springdale replied. “And, of course, it has an excellent harbour. I will speak to the Captain about it and we might just stop there before we cross to the other side of the Mediterranean.”
“Anywhere we go will be new and exciting to me,” Mellina said. “But rather than miss anything, I hope that you will tell me what you have read or what you have seen already of the places we will visit. It would be sad to miss the chance of seeing something fascinating.”
Lord Springdale did not like to say that on some of his trips he had been so obsessed by the lady with him that the history of where they had visited or the town they had seen had made very little impression on him.
“You will not be surprised to find out that I have a library on board,” he told her. “In fact o
