On a further hill, round the corner, you saw the white houses of a Greek village and beyond it a huge grey crag surmounted by the battlements of a medieval castle.
'It was one of the strongholds of the Knights,' she said. 'I'll take you up there this evening.'
The scene was quite lovely.
It took your breath away.
It was peaceful and yet it had a strange air of life.
It moved you not to contemplation, but stirred you to activity.
'You've got the tobacco all right, I suppose.'
He started.
'I'm afraid I haven't.
I never got your wire.'
'But I wired to the Embassy and I wired to the Excelsior.'
'I stayed at the Plaza.'
'What a bore!
Albert'll be furious.'
'Who is Albert?'
'He drove you out.
Player's is the only tobacco he likes and he can't get it here.'
'Oh, the chauffeur.'
He pointed to the boat that lay gleaming beneath them. 'Is that the yacht I've heard about?'
'Yes.'
It was a large caique that Betty had bought, fitted with a motor auxiliary and smartened up.
In it she wandered about the Greek islands.
She had been as far north as Athens and as far south as Alexandria.
'We'll take you for a trip if you can spare the time,' she said.
'You ought to see Cos while you're here.'
'Who runs it for you?'
'Of course I have a crew, but Albert chiefly.
He's very clever with motors and all that.'
He did not know why it gave him a vague discomfort to hear her speak of the chauffeur again.
Carruthers wondered if she did not leave too much in his hands.
It was a mistake to give a servant too much leeway.
'You know, I couldn't help thinking I'd seen Albert before somewhere.
But I can't place him.'
She smiled brightly, her eyes shining, with that sudden gaiety of hers that gave her face its delightful frankness.
'You ought to remember him.
He was the second footman at Aunt Louise's.
He must have opened the door to you hundreds of times.'
Aunt Louise was the aunt with whom Betty had lived before her marriage.
'Oh, is that who he is?
I suppose I must have seen him there without noticing him.
How does he happen to be here?'
'He comes from our place at home.
When I married he wanted to come with me, so I took him.
He was Jimmie's valet for some time and then I sent him to some motor works, he was mad about cars, and eventually I took him on as my chauffeur.
I don't know what I should do without him now.'
'Don't you think it's rather a mistake to get too dependent on a servant?'
'I don't know.
It never occurred to me.'
Betty showed him the rooms that had been got ready for him, and when he had changed they strolled down to the beach.
A dinghy was waiting for them and they rowed out to the caique and bathed from there.