She found that Lord Saire, like herself, had borrowed some day clothes and in a white tussore suit he looked somehow different.
“We’ve already sent to Singapore for tailors,” Mrs. Henderson said after she had greeted Bertilla, “and all you have to do now is to go shopping without having to enter a shop. I must say it’s one of the luxuries I enjoy most about living in the East.”
“I am afraid I cannot – afford anything at all expensive,” Bertilla said, remembering that she had to pay her hotel accommodation before she left for Sarawak.
“If you are worried about that,” Lord Saire said, “I am quite certain we shall all be fully compensated for what we have lost by the Steamship Company.”
He smiled at her encouragingly and added,
“The only trouble is that we shall have to wait during all t
