Honoria did everything she could to cheer Dougless up, but nothing worked. Gratefully dismounting, Dougless took her horse’s reins and ran after him. 'How did Marthinus know that Annatjie was his? When news of the ship reached out here, we supposed all the girls would be gone. His commitment lay with the city, not to any grandiose concept of its destiny but to the honorable task of doing better whatever limited assignment he was given.
'Let us keep the fan-boys. When her eyes flew open and she straightened up, he chucked her under the chin as a father might do—or as the gorgeous private eye might do to his soppy secretary. When he left his sons with Annatjie for two weeks so that he could journey to Fransch Hoek, she was c Then the scene with Robert came back to her.
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