“We will win,” he said confidently, “as we have set out to find perfect happiness in the future.”
There was just a touch of sarcasm in his last words.
Then Mellina remarked,
“Because everything strange seems to happen to us, I think we are incredibly lucky. If we had stayed at home, perhaps bored, I should feel quite different from how I feel at this moment.”
“How do you feel?” Lord Springdale enquired.
“Happy! Just supremely happy,” Mellina answered. “Please say you are happy too, Ian.”
“I am, of course, I am and in fact I can say quite honestly I am enjoying every moment of this voyage and even the weird and unexpected things that seem to happen so frequently to us.”
He paused before he added,
“Perhaps one day we will put them all in a book. Then other people will be encouraged t
