![]() ![]() ![]() Jean does not correct his impression that she is married (she is carrying the youngest of Mrs. ![]() He and Jean strike up a friendship in the little time they have together, and he tells her about Alice Springs, the town where he grew up. He steals petrol and barters it for medicines for them. On their trek, the group meet a young Australian soldier, Sergeant Joe Harman, also a prisoner, who drives a truck for the Japanese. The women and children, however, are made to walk from place to place, looking for a ship to transport them to Singapore, but at each place, there is no ship available, and the Japanese authorities have no wish to take responsibility for them. Holland, with her three children, she is taken prisoner, along with other white men, women and children. When she stays to help the wife of her employer, Mr. Jean is working in an office in Kuala Lumpur in Malaya when the Japanese invade. She lived and worked there for three years during the war. The village women will no longer have to walk so far each day to collect water. ![]() Jean uses part of it to build a well in a small village in Malaya. In post-Second World War London, a young woman, Jean Paget, is informed by solicitor Noel Strachan that she has a large inheritance. ![]()
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