Chapter Two
Roxana was feeling nervous.
She hoped that she showed no sign of it, but she was well aware that this newcomer might make trouble.
There had been a lot of trouble already caused by the women of the Dutch community who had said categorically that since her uncle was dead she should not be allowed to stay in Bali.
Roxana knew that they were not concerned so much with her position as a young woman as that they were jealous.
It would be impossible for the fat and unattractive mevrouws whose complexions had deteriorated in the sun and whose heavy eating had put many surplus pounds on their figures not to resent the way she looked.
They watched her suspiciously and they also made it clear, as they had from the time of her arrival in Bali, that they did not consider a Missionary
