Chapter TwoHaving cried herself to sleep every night, by the time Roberta reached Marseilles she was very tired.
Then she told herself that she should be ashamed to be her father’s daughter if she could not do as he had suggested and make her journey to America an adventure.
He had been unconscious until the last moment before he died, when he had opened his eyes and looked at her as if, she thought, she was surrounded by a dazzling light.
Then he said very quietly,
“I love you – my darling!”
A moment later he stopped breathing.
She was not certain afterwards whether he was speaking to her or whether he thought that she was her mother, but his words were a comfort and she had the feeling that his spirit would be with her wherever she went.
When Hassam and the camel boys put him into
