[1] Of 1900.
[2] The regent’s palace.
[3] Resident’s wife.
Chapter Ten
Next day, when Eldersma had gone to the office and Eva was moving about the house, in sarong and kabaai, on her domestic duties, she saw Frans van Helderen coming through the garden.
“May I?” he called out.
“Certainly,” she called back. “Come in. But I’m on my way to the godown.”
And she held up her bunch of keys.
“I’m due at the resident’s in half an hour, but I’m too early ... so I just looked in.”