CHAPTER NINE
The great temple to Athene towers high over the City of Athens. It is a beautiful oblong building, with many tall pillars still standing.
As they travelled towards the temple, Vanda raised her eyes upwards in wonder.
For a while they wandered through the ruins in silence and then Robert murmured,
“I remember Alberto saying that he and Ginetta came here when they first met.”
“Yes, they claim it is a temple to love,” Vanda said. “And so it is – in a way.”
“In a way?”
“It is devoted to Athene, who actually represented spiritual development and understanding,” Vanda said. “But surely love is more than emotion, however sweet. Understanding matters too. It is not enough for lovers’ hearts to be close. If their minds cannot meet, love cannot last.”
“How true that is,” he agre
