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...weather is not the sole cause of their tension: the close, gossipy air of the colony contains other conflicts. Fern, sought by a young Army officer, is in love with the cynical Ransome. Miss MacDaid. despite race-prejudice, is hopelessly enamored of the high-souled but brown-skinned Major Safti. Lovely, lickerish Lady Esketh revives a past entanglement with Ransome, simultaneously sets a determined cap for the surgeon. They are all treading on each other's erotic heels in this fashion when the rains come-this time with catastrophic force, accompanied by an earthquake which for ten days isolates...
Maharani; Tom Ransome, lean, good-looking profligate and world-wanderer; Fern Simon, pretty daughter of the resident missionary; Major Safti, brilliant native surgeon, and Miss MacDaid, his head nurse; Lord Esketh, a self-made peer, and his lady; attendant functionaries, members of the garrison, dried-up and dissatisfied English ladies...
...that even the impact of the earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters one by one through the disaster. In the end, Author Bromfield metes out justice with the precise hand of a Sunday School superintendent distributing awards and censure. Only the faithful nurse, Miss MacDaid. is left holding...
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