Chapter Ten
I DIDN’T HEAR FROM RAANU until the late afternoon, when she sent me a message, as agreed, that she was on the train home. I’d been working on a speech for Karana when she messaged me. It turned out to be not so easy to balance my appreciation for her work for us with my desire for her to maintain ambitions outside the home, and for the resulting text not to cause offence with the keihu upper class. I was wrestling with putting my concepts into words that wouldn’t cause offence. It was a task I gladly abandoned to be completed later.
I went to the station and picked Raanu up as she came bounding out of the train. She greeted me with a broad smile.
“You enjoyed yourself?” To be honest, I was surprised.
“That’s pretty amazing,” she said. “I can’t believe all the things that go
