Then she knew that diamonds given willingly or grudgingly were not appropriate to the wilds of Sarawak.
‘I had better take the brooch back to Mama,’ Dorinda told herself and picked it up.
Then, as she held it in her hand, she looked down at it for a moment and pinned it to the front of her dress.
She wondered what Maximus Kirby would do with all the jewellery that Letty had discarded. Would he sell it? Or would he keep it for the next woman he asked to become his wife?
At the thought of his being married Dorinda felt the pain that she had experienced before stab her.
Then she asked herself despairingly what was the use of going on suffering? Once she had left Singapore it was doubtful if she would ever know what happened to him.
News of his marriage, or anything else he did, was hard
