‘Colonel Tras wanted a quiet, obedient wife, a wife to perch on his arm and make pretty sounds—’ ‘Not very observant, was he?’ ‘More like stubborn. Any horse can be broken, was his philosophy. And that’s what he set about doing.’ ‘Was the colonel a subtle man?’ ‘Not even a clever one.’ ‘Yet Minala is both – what in Hood’s name was she thinking?’
