“From the secret list of desires of Olivia Rathbourne It was not difficult to understand why Sterling had described travel as tedious. It did seem endless. Still, Olivia thought every moment exciting and invigorating. At long last, she was going somewhere. She was doing something. No matter how eager she was to reach their destination, the journey itself was an adventure. Sterling had chosen to travel almost entirely by sea, and they were in their third day aboard a packet steamer they’d taken f...rom London. Four more days, and they’d arrive in Marseilles, where they would board another ship that would take five days to transport them to Egypt. Sterling had admitted that traveling from London to Dover, crossing the Channel, taking a train to Paris and another train to Marseilles would have been a bit faster but not, he had said, as efficient. Apparently, he had found the idea of transferring two ladies with their assorted baggage from one mode of transport to another somewhat daunting.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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