

For Lucy had made friends with an enchanting dolphin by whom she had first been thoroughly frightened then completely captivated. Lucy encounted Max Gale the first morning of her arrival-and a tempestuous meeting it was. But any hope of meeting him was quickly dashed by Phyl, who indicated, with uncharacteristic vagueness, that not all was well with the great man and that his composer son, Max, discouraged visitors, particularly strangers.

When Lucy Waring came to Corfu to visit her sister Phyllida Forli, she was elated to discover that the castello above their villa had been rented to Sir Julian Gale.Ī very minor cog in the London theatre, Lucy not unnaturally felt something close to reverence for Sir Julian, one of the brilliant lights of England's theatrical world.
