CHAPTER SEVENMellina was woken very early by Lord Springdale knocking on her door.
She realised that he was up and about already and she must not keep him waiting.
So she hurriedly jumped out of bed and washed and dressed herself in what she felt must be record time.
She went up to the Saloon where Lord Springdale was already eating his breakfast.
“You are very early,” she commented. “I was fast asleep when you knocked.”
“I was afraid that you might be,” he told her. “But unless we get off as soon as possible, we shall run into the crowds which come up from the South. I want to see the Colosseum of El Djem, as indeed you do, without mobs of people making a noise as they wander over it.”
“Of course you are right, Ian. It would be a mistake to see anything that we have been told is so
