“I’m glad to hear it. And please don’t change your mind. She may be beautiful, but she hasn’t got an ounce of judgement, since she still, at sixteen, prefers mucking about with Ellie to the company of boys.”
“You are wrong about the English as well. At least some of them. I can miss my Greek friends without wanting to send all the English to the devil.”
“When you say at least some of them, for whom do you make the exception?”
“You, for example”, admitted Dimitri after a moment’s hesitation.
“That deserves a kiss, even though I’m not English”, said Sarah, and bending over him, she settled a fleeting kiss on his forehead. And then with one movement she jumped up, took off her shirt and shorts and, keeping on only the small bikini she was wearing underneath, ran to the cistern and dived h
