CHAPTER SIXIN the afternoon there was a torrential downpour of rain, as happened almost every day during the rainy season.
It did not last for long, but the streets were soon awash, the paddy fields flooded and everybody sought shelter.
The Duke, fortunately, had not left the Palace and went with Dawson to the dark room.
They finished developing and printing all the photographs that he had taken since he arrived in Jogyakarta.
When he showed his pictures of the concubines to the Sultan, he was delighted. It was something that he had never had before and never expected to have.
The Duke realised that he could not have given him a more acceptable present, whatever he brought him.
Later, when the rain had stopped, he took some more photographs of the Palace and thought that they would b
