With an almost superhuman effort he forced himself to think of something else.
‘I will have a shower,’ he told himself, ‘and perhaps when I am cool I will be able to sleep.’
At the same time he was thinking almost agonisingly that, once they were through the Sea of Marmara and into the Aegean Sea, they would be sailing direct to Alexandria.
Then, after he had been to the Embassy, they would doubtless send him in a ship with separate cabins for the rest of their voyage to England.
It was then that their separation would start in earnest.
He knew that in one of the fast P. & O. vessels they would reach England in about ten days.
Those ten days would have to last him for the rest of his life.
When they were over and Thekla was with her own people, he would never see her again.
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