He gave a little laugh before he added,
“Certainly where money was concerned. Those he helped or who worked with him never thought of him as anything but a leader and a King over his own people.”
“So you can understand how much I admired him,” Melita said. “When I learnt that he was my father, I was delighted to have someone who had meant so much to me and who had been so kind to me, when for the rest of the time I was encircled only by women.”
“Of course I do,” Sir John replied. “I can honestly say that it never troubled me that he had coloured skin. What is so amazing is that you are the image, I understand, of your mother and no one for a moment would ever think that your skin is not as white as snow.”
“That is more or less what Papa said to me,” Melita answered. “As he wanted
