CHAPTER FIVEThe yacht steamed down the Mediterranean.
As it did so, the Duke was thinking that he had never known anyone as excited and enthusiastic as Alnina.
She was so thrilled with everything she saw and everything that he and William told her.
She was so pleased by the monkeys at Gibraltar that the Duke quite expected to be asked to take some with him.
Then, when they reached Italy, she longed to go to Rome and the Duke told her that he was in too much of a hurry and she would have to be content with Naples where they refuelled.
Naples, of course, was near Pompeii and Alnina had marvellous stories to tell them of what she had read on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the terrible destruction it caused in AD 79.
In fact the Duke told her that she was a walking encyclopaedia.
“I
