“They would not dare to show it openly,” Roxana flashed.
“But it is there all the same?”
“Of course it is there!” she answered.
“You sound as if you too believe that they should have been left to their own devices.”
He saw that she debated with herself whether she should tell the truth.
Then she informed him,
'The Balinese are a very happy people and, before the Dutch came, they had achieved a remarkable civilisation.”
She looked at the Count to see if he was about to contradict her and then carried on,
“Their religion binds them together by ideals and harmonious thought. They are closely united in the worship of their wonderful ancestral Gods.”
“A strange statement from a Christian in the house of a Missionary,” the Count remarked dryly.
“I am not a Missionary,” Roxana retorted,
