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CHAPTER FOUR-1
CHAPTER FOURThe crew were delighted with Delia. The Marquis had chosen older men to be his crew as there were intervals when he did not take his yacht to sea. He thought young men could find the work boring and get into trouble, and so he therefore preferred men who were over thirty-five and, as the crew had already been with him a few years, many of them were even older. From the moment she appeared they took what the Marquis considered was a fatherly interest in Delia. They treated her as a child and he could not help his eyes twinkling when the chef one day made her a chocolate ice cream in the form of an upright bear sitting in a pool of strawberry jelly. She had gone to the galley and talked to the chef in French, so that every day he tried to think of a new dish to entertain the
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