CHAPTER SIXThe following day was a disappointment.
Royden was informed quite early that the carriage he had ordered was not available until the following day.
So when Malva came down to breakfast, he told her that they would have to postpone their special visit for at least twenty-four hours.
“I am very sorry,” he said.
Malva smiled.
“I don’t mind. This is the best place I have ever known for swimming and I was thinking last night when I went to bed that I would rather swim than sightsee.”
“This is something quite new,” he replied. “You had told me you only wanted to examine statues, Churches, Palaces and everything else ancient that may be available.”
“That is before I found the perfect place to swim. I have never known anywhere as lovely as it is here. The sea is exactly right as
