chapter fourLord Selwyn enjoyed, as he had expected, his trip through the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal, which had been opened for the first time the previous month.
He was extremely interested in seeing the remarkable results of Ferdinand de Lesseps’s engineering genius and administrative enterprise in connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea through his illustrious Canal.
It had shortened the voyage to India to between seventeen and twenty days instead of nearly three months.
He had taken with him a number of books to read on the voyage.
Unfortunately he had nothing in his library about Penang and he wondered exactly what it would be like when he arrived at his destination.
He was doing his best to try not to think about Maisie.
Yet, when he went out on deck at nigh
