CHAPTER FIVE“We really are so lucky,” Nicholas said at dinner as the ship was moving up the English Channel.
“I never thought for a moment,” Ivor replied, “that I should meet Charles in such an unexpected way.”
“He is very handsome,” Alvita remarked. “I am not surprised you became friends at University, Ivor.”
“We were great friends. He was always extremely kind to me. He used to ask me to his parties and I once stayed with him in his country house which is magnificent, needless to say.”
He stopped talking for a moment, as he sought to remember and then added,
“It is filled with glorious treasures collected by the generations before him.”
“It sounds very interesting,” Nicholas said. “Tell me what particular treasures he has in his country house.”
“Just what you would expect from
