CHAPTER SIXBy the evening she had told the Marquis everything the Khedive had said in Arabic and admitted to being quite weary so they had an early night.
The next morning, as soon as she had greeted the Marquis at breakfast, Delia asked him eagerly,
“Now, what are we going to do today, my Lord?”
“I know perfectly well you want to go sightseeing and I suppose I will have to climb the Great Pyramid!”
“You did promise me we could go inside.”
“Very well, Delia, but you will find it very airless and uncomfortable, especially as one has to crawl part of the way. At the same time when you go back to England, you can boast that you have done it.”
Delia nearly enquired, ‘who to?’ and then she felt it would be drawing too much attention to her own troubles.
Instead she admitted,
“You are s
