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Updated: May 21, 2025
The years dominated by Desmond had been supreme. They had left school together, when Roy was seventeen; and, at the time, their parting had seemed like the end of everything. Yet, very soon after, he had found himself in the thick of fresh delights a wander-year in Italy, Greece, the Mediterranean, with the parents and Christine
Would it be utterly impossible ? Could they spend a wander-year in Rajputana the cities, the desert, the Aravallis: his father painting he writing? The result a combined book, dedicated to her memory; an attempt to achieve something in the nature of interpretation his arrogant dream of Oxford days; a vindication of his young faith in the arts as the true medium of mutual understanding.
"Oh, I 'm not returning to Isola Nobile tonight," Susanna jauntily mentioned, her chin a little perked up in the air. Then, with the sweetest smile through which there pierced, perhaps, just a faint glimmer of secret mischief? "I 'm starting on my wander-year," she added, and waved her hand imperially towards the open sea. It was a progression of surprises for the tall, thin old Commendatore.
As I skidded past them I told myself I had more than a right to weep over Sam when I thought of the last time I had seen him before this distressing interview; the contrast was enough to cause grief. It had happened the night after Sam's graduation in June and just the night before I had sailed with Mabel Vandyne and Miss Greenough for a wander-year in Europe.
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