Description:

Kitty and Leo are parted shortly after their engagement and their stories are traced as they work and travel in Africa during the momentous era when she shakes off Colonial Rule. They and the Colonials they meet try to make sense of what, to them, is the inexplicable behaviour of the British policy makers and finally begin to see it in some sort of perspective. the story covers rural England, Kenya, Rhodesia and South Africa. Who is the lady in the russet dress, and what is her significance?