CHAPTER TWOFor a moment both Dalma and the Earl were silent.
Then he asked, “Why are you here? Who are you?”
Slowly Dalma climbed to her feet while Twi-Twi was trying to attract the Earl’s attention.
As she rose, she was astonished to see that the Earl was not as she expected. She had thought that he would be an old man, otherwise he would not have had such a large and luxurious yacht.
Yet the man facing her was young and exceedingly handsome. He was wearing yachting clothes of white trousers and a navy blazer.
Because his looks were so completely unexpected, she could only manage to say in a very small voice,
“I am very sorry, but I came aboard because they would not have my dog Twi-Twi on the Steamer going back to England.”
”So you came aboard my yacht,” the Earl stated, as if he
