“That is what I wanted to hear,” David replied. “I will try not to impose on you or unnerve you, but I knew as soon as I set eyes on you that you were the most attractive girl I have ever seen in my whole life.”
“You must have met very many people,” Mellina answered, “so I find that hard to believe.”
“It is true,” he assured her. “But I know it would be an error to try to jump my fences too quickly. So what I am asking you now is that when I come to London, which will be in about two months’ time, that you will let me see you again.”
Mellina drew in her breath.
But before she could speak, David went on,
“Give me your address now, Mellina, so that I can write to you and it will therefore be impossible for you to forget me before I arrive in London.”
“Of course neither my brother nor I
