reached for a straw. ‘Er... the Blue
Train never went to Alexandria
and Cairo, did it?’ Mr Lehmann
agreed that that had been the case.
‘Well, have you any other ideas?’
he asked. ‘I can’t help thinking that
the word Mediterranean in the title
is an important one.’ ‘Look,’ he
replied, ‘you go home and think
about the title, and I’ll think about
it too, and we’ll see what we both
come up with. Meanwhile you must
write an Introduction to the book
and perhaps enlarge it a bit. It’s
very short, you know.’
Home I went, wondering
whatever an Introduction was to be