She picked it up now, felt the leather case and decided that he was right in thinking it was unlikely that the water on which it had been floating had penetrated the thickness of the leather.
“I inspected the box carefully,” Roydon Sanford told her, “and even if it was wet, by the time we reached here it was quite dry.”
“Then I think we will risk the film that is already in it,” Valda said, “because it is a new one.”
She did not add that she had not changed a film for so long that she was slightly uncertain as to how to do it.
When the time came, she was determined to be alone to read the instructions carefully.
“Let’s go and see the foals,” Roydon Sanford suggested. “Do you want a hat?”
“I did not bring one with me,” Valda answered.
“You are certainly travelling very light,” he sai
