15: Five PointsDr Feigenbaum was leaning on his ebony walking stick and he raised his hat to her as she approached. She stopped short, too angry to speak. He smiled at her, his eyes shining behind his round-rimmed spectacles.
‘What have you done?’ Eliza almost spat the words at him and felt her body shaking with anger. ‘They were going to send me back. Back to England.’
‘I waited for you and when you didn’t emerge with the rest of the passengers, I made some enquiries and they told me you had been detained and were to be deported.’
‘Precisely!’
‘But that would have been terrible when you have come so far.’ His face was puzzled and he stroked his beard as though that would bring him some kind of revelation.
‘You know that my fiancé was taken from the ship. This was my chance to get bac
