雨季%-来临

简介

　　The adventurous * Lady ]:E_d^#wina .Esketh travels! to the princel (.!y sta%$:te of Ranc?^hipur in Ind.\ia with #her `husband] , L!ord Albert Esket^ h, wh\o 
is there to //*p# !urchase some!^ of the Mah$ar[;ajah's hor*, ses. Sh=e*!'s surprised to meet an old
* friend, Tom.) Ransome wh=+o came#??( /*\to R[anchipur,/ seven years before to moxia.cc pa.?i,;nt the Maharajah&!)#39
#+:,s portrait and just st+ayed on-^. Ransome has@ d;%--e
velo \ped som @--ething o#

f a rep[utat\io+]n+# ;]- f[or$+) womani*[zing and drinking =too #-much - but that` ;(9s OK with Ed\wina who =*;is bored[ and looking for fu^n. S_#,he soon=` meet@: s [[/the local  doct*or, the hard wo=*rking and serious Major Rama S%afti. He [
*doe;
/s$\ n& #39t* imme#_di %ately_;% respond? to!: her(-! adv[ances but wh_@en t+]he$^ sea);sonal rains#? com

e, dis(aster strikes#,:@ when a ; da)m fai +)l=s,(_ flo,=od =@@in[.g much of t#he countryside. Dis;*ease soon= sets in an-d ev $^,eryone, :includ
in=_g Ransom;_:e #a-nd Edwina, *=@`work at* a non-s\
top pac+]e to -[.sav,e as- many as pos?
sible. .Safti deepl`,-y admires*
\ Edwina('s] sacrifice but f@ate interv$*enes.