“A different boat from the one in which you had been brought to the island?”
“Yes. It was a slightly bigger one. We got into it and he began to row not as I expected to Goldhanger Creek, but across the river!”
“Did you ask him where he was going?”
“I was sitting in the bow and Grandpapa was between me and the man.”
She thought the Marquis looked surprised and she explained, “Grandpapa was very active. He picked up the second pair of oars and sat down in front of me. ‘I will give you a hand,’ he said to the man, ‘it will not take so long’.”
“Your grandfather said nothing about rowing South instead of North?”
“He might have,” Idylla replied. “It seems stupid of me, but I cannot remember. I was worrying because I had left the soup and the strawberries behind at the farm because the man
