“Now you surprise me, Dalma. I hardly expected you, as you are studying Greek, to be interested in the engines of my yacht.”
“I think everything perfect is interesting. Just as you will want your horses to be better than anyone else’s, so naturally your yacht, your house and I expect, a great number of your possessions are all perfect.”
“Of course that is what I have tried to make them,” the Earl replied. “But now tell me about yourself. Would it be rude of me to ask how old you are, Dalma?”
“I am young enough to feel that I should be older for the situation I now find myself in – ” The Earl laughed.
“And what were you expecting when you came aboard?”
“I thought, because you had such a large yacht, that you must be rich and, if you were rich, you must be old. As there were so many men
