“I have thought about that – and that is what I want to tell you.”
“Now I have no option but to listen to you.”
He smiled as he spoke and, as Elmina smiled back at him, she said,
“I can only say once again that I am – sorry.”
“There is no need to apologise, but I do want to hear your suggestions for the future.”
Elmina put her head a little to one side as she asked,
“What do you most enjoy doing in your life? What gives you the greatest pleasure?”
The Marquis thought an appropriate reply to the question could be ‘making love’, but he felt in the circumstances it would be somewhat embarrassing.
Therefore thinking quickly he replied,
“It is difficult to answer, but perhaps winning a race in a close finish.”
“Exactly!” Elmina cried. “In other words – you have had to strive and use y
