Then he asked himself somewhat cynically if it was possible that this young girl could waken him to aspects of life unlike from anything he had known before.
Yet, although he did not want to admit it, he was thinking of issues that had never previously concerned him.
In a curious way he could understand how much Greece meant to Delia and how she would rather see it than anywhere else in the world.
“You are so right,” she murmured. “I have read all about Greece, but no book was ever enough and invariably I was left wanting more.”
“What will happen if you are disappointed, Delia?”
“I just don’t believe it would ever be possible to be disappointed with Greece. It has been responsible for so much of our modern civilisation and has inspired so many great people.”
She spoke with such a r
