She made an elegant gesture with her hand.
“But now I am grown up and I really enjoy the unexpected and that applies to people as well as things.”
“What it amounts to,” the Duke said, “is that you are determined to be a problem.”
“Why not?” Nelita retorted. “Incidentally I think it will be very good for you.”
The Duke raised his eyebrows.
“Why me in particular?”
“Because you are obviously in a groove, spending all that time abroad with nothing to think about except to kill the enemy and keep him from killing you.”
The Duke had to admit that that was quite a fair appreciation of what he had been doing.
“What you need to do,” Nelita went on, “is to step into another world and enjoy yourself for a change.”
She put her head a little on one side as if once again she was scrutinising hi
