She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert
her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her
thoughts. 'I've got all the proof necessary.'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but
shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by
her marriage, she starts an affair with Charles Townsend, a man whom she finds
charming, attractive and exciting. But when Walter discovers her deception, he
exacts a strange but terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new
posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages.First published
to a storm of protest, The