At the same time she was aware, because she loved him, that he was worried about something although he did not confide in her as to what it was.
Now she understood.
He must have been aware that they were planning in the village to destroy her father and his family because they owned so much land and in their eyes were therefore grotesquely rich and privileged.
Many of those working for him relied on them for their very existence.
It was not only the servants in the house but those who worked on the farms and the many thousands of acres of agricultural land that made up the family estate.
When her mother died, Weena knew that she was a grievous loss to her father that he was not strong enough to withstand.
A year after her mother was buried, he was taken ill and nothing the doctors co
