“I want you to tell me about all of them,” Weena said. “But I think I should go to bed now.”
David rose to his feet.
As they walked side by side along the deck, Weena thought that she was being very silly in leaving him when he obviously did not want her to do so.
She was not certain how soon they would arrive in Gibraltar, but she had a feeling that it would be perhaps late tomorrow or the next day.
Then she would never see him again.
As they reached the door that led into the ship, she longed to say that she had changed her mind and wanted to stay with him.
Then she felt that it would seem uncomfortable if she did so.
So she merely said,
“Goodnight, David, and thank you very very much for being so kind to me.”
Before he could answer her, she then ran down the companionway that l
