CHAPTER EIGHTIn the following days the castle began to hum. Gina was making a detailed inspection of every room, accompanied by Sonia and Imelda, who seemed to function as her aides-de-camps, taking notes of her ideas and scurrying around to carry them out.
John felt moved to protest.
"Gina, you are here as a guest. I cannot allow you to do the work of a housekeeper."
She seemed to consider this remark seriously.
"Very well. I will hand the work over to whoever you name."
That brought him to a standstill. There was nobody with Gina's organisational skills, except possibly Pharaoh and he was already fully occupied.
These days it was hard for John to know how to talk to her. The discovery that she had rejected him as a possible husband at the outset, even though he was officially unawa
