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Updated: June 8, 2025
We live a long way out in Kokine, where Germans herd together, and I take this chance of a talk. I am a busy man particularly of late; and time with me means money, so I'll tell you what I have to say in as few words as possible." Sophy nodded her head in agreeable assent. "Some years ago my wife met with a bad accident a fall, out paper-chasing.
"And what do you think of Rangoon?" inquired Mrs. Gregory. "Oh, do not ask her," interposed Mrs. Krauss with a dramatic gesture, "she has been with me for more than a fortnight, and this is the first time she has been beyond Kokine.
Of course, he is a member of the Gymkhana and all that; but he keeps to the German set and lives among them over in Kokine; then his English wife, once a celebrated beauty, is a semi-invalid.
All my neighbours are German; here in Kokine is a German colony; they all dine and have music, and gossip together, and I am rather out of it. Of course, I speak German, but not very fluently.
"His housekeeper!" repeated Shafto; "why, he told me he lived at the German Club!" "That may be; but he has a fine house in Kokine. It is not an uncommon situation that sort of temporary marriage. Ma Chit looks after his interests, rules his household, and makes him comfortable; her people acquiesce. All marriages are easily arranged and easily dissolved among the Burmans.
Gregory's conversation, Douglas set to work with the proverbial enthusiasm of a new broom and soon became as Salter had predicted a cog in the whirling wheels of a machine. But Thursday being the Station holiday, he hired a taxi and had himself driven out to Kokine, in order to call on Mrs. Krauss and Miss Leigh; unfortunately his journey proved to be a waste of time and money.
Gregory, making room for Sophy beside her; "what has become of you all these weeks?" "Oh, I have been in Kokine and quite safe," she answered, but her smile was not so ready and whole-hearted as it had been on board ship. "Aunt Flora caught a chill and has been laid up. Poor dear, she is a martyr to neuralgia."
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