There was a note in his voice that told Dominica all too clearly that this was another reason why he hated to leave Ceylon.
“Perhaps as a woman you will find many things that I have omitted,” he said with a smile, “but to me my house seemed nearly perfect and its position could not be improved on anywhere else in Ceylon.”
“I am sure that I shall admire it very much,” Dominica said in a low voice.
She hoped as she spoke that she would also admire its present occupant.
Supposing Gerald Warren had a broken heart for the girl he had lost and could not bear the thought of another woman taking her place?
‘I must be very kind and understanding,’ Dominica told herself.
She was used to being gentle and compassionate.
After her mother had died her father often insisted that she went with him
