Mario smiled sardonically.
‘Villa Sana seems like quite a cheap wedding present for a Bocher bride. The donation was not to be the only gift. The announcement in the papers that the couple would be accepting felicitations at their residence in London, lifted every doubt in your uncle’s mind. He made you the legal owner of his property. You won the game. You had a good hold on Bocher’s widow and half of his property and you had struck up a sure deal with his heiress. The only problem that remained to be settled was Diaz. Too serious a problem to leave unsettled. His statements at Splendid Palace were the words of a politician. He had accepted the suggestion to run for the anti-Venizelist party. Everyone can smell a new electoral battle along the bridgeless gap between King Constantine and
