When they passed the people who stood staring in awe and admiration at the train, she saw that they looked very attractive, many of the women being quite beautiful and the men broad-shouldered and strong.
They appeared to Giona to be a smiling people and, as if they realised whom the train carried, they waved as it passed them and she waved back.
It was after luncheontime when finally they drew up at the Station of Dūric.
There were flags everywhere, the flags of Slavonia side by side with the Union Jack, and the whole Station was decorated with flowers.
Standing on a red carpet, waiting for the coach that contained Giona to come to a standstill, was a mass of civic dignitaries, beside a number of Officers festooned with medals and one man in the centre wearing a plumed hat, who she wa
