CHAPTER THREEThe yacht was even more impressive than Mellina had expected.
She had actually seen a number of yachts when her father had taken her with him when he had bought one for himself.
Yachts had become very popular in England.
The smartest young men-about-town thought that it increased their status when, as well as magnificent horses, they had a yacht that they could take to sea.
Lord Springdale himself had travelled a great deal after he bought his yacht when he was only twenty-one.
His father had said it was a necessary extravagance.
But he knew that he wanted it at first because it was very smart to have one and then because he realised that it was a place he could escape to away from the pressure put on him by his family.
He had therefore often slipped away before they co
