Chapter TwoDorinda started to unpack in her cabin aboard The Osaka.
It was one of the latest P. & O. Liners that served the Far East and she was pleasantly surprised at the comfort and luxury of the State Rooms that she and Letty had been allotted.
There were two large cabins to sleep in and a State Room where there were several huge baskets of expensive flowers ordered for Letty with the compliments of Maximus Kirby.
They had been received on board with an impressive formality, almost as if, Dorinda thought to herself, they were Royalty.
When the Chinese lady’s maid appeared, bowing low, it was impossible not to realise how extremely fortunate they were.
But Letty had been in a querulous and miserable state for weeks.
She had insisted over and over again that she did not wish to go
