Chapter 5Adrian didn’t encounter Captain Ransome until the following morning. However, this was rather sooner than he had hoped. The family was attending the Long Room at Bayshill Spa once more. His aunt intended on fortifying herself with the health-giving waters from the Royal Well to ward off another megrim for when Chloe next lapsed into a rage. All three girls were in good spirits, as they had arranged to meet their new friends after the success of the night before. So enthused were the ladies that none of them noticed that Adrian was subdued on the short trip from the Royal Crescent along Well Walk.
Once in the Long Room, having fetched his aunt a cup of spring water, he joined the group of young people with whom the girls had mixed at the Powers Court Assembly. Adrian thought he wa
