Alice laughed and resumed her scrubbing, “I’m saving up for my wedding dress! I’ll captivate a rich Indian, and we’ll be married on the beach in a grand ceremony attended by a thousand of our closest friends.”
Esther warned, “If he’s Indian, you’ll be Muslim or Hindu one day, and either way you’ll never please his mother — if she even allows it to happen!”
“You’re just jealous,” Alice huffed. “I’m sure this gentleman is very honorable. But does he know there are almost no Americans in Diani? He won’t want to stay. The Germans will snub him, and so will the British.”
Esther ignored her sister and told Harry, “Vera’s husband is a ranger with the wildlife service, and he’s posted to a camp in Tsavo East. He gets a month leave, usually during rainy season, and he sends money home. But hardl
