Never had he imagined that any woman could be quite so beautiful and with a beauty that was ethereal and hardly human.
It seemed a long time before Lin Kuan Teng spoke.
Then he said,
“I have no idea who the lady could be or where she has come from. Very strange. Very mysterious! Perhaps she may be a gift from the Gods!”
*
Anona had been more and more frightened as, having boarded her father’s ship, they set off at speed out to sea.
She was terrified that at any moment they would find a Royal Navy ship following them and then her father would be arrested and taken away.
As soon as she was ready, he had taken her from the house through the garden and down to the beach.
He was carrying the small case that she had packed her mother’s gown and jewels in. It also contained her own things
