Lacey is bad.

The Cape Colony is very large, but for many people, the Cape Colony is also very small, especially Cape Town, where the palm is bigger, there is a little bit of a scandal and secret history, and the city can be full of wind and rain in minutes, it is not a secret that Henry was kicked out of the army by General Hopkins, and those who are interested will know the real reason if they understand it a little.

The director of the Cape Mining Bureau, the size is also an official in the Cape Colony, the marriage between Swift and Hopkins is a strong combination, and now Lacey and Henry have an affair, Swift is of course very unhappy, but it doesn't matter if he is unhappy, marriage, this kind of thing is normal, both sides are pursuing each other's political resources, the feelings of the children are not important, and the close integration of the two families is the most important.

The key is Lacey's attitude, and I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup Henry poured into Lacey, according to Ada, Lacey washed her face with tears all day long at home, and postponed her marriage twice in a row, although she didn't say that Henry didn't marry, but it was obvious that she resisted the marriage.

"I'm going to find Lacey." Henry knew about Lacey's recent situation, and he couldn't bear it anymore.

Ada watched Henry without speaking, all Cape Townians were interested in this rocket-rising upstart.

"I wouldn't have done that if I were you, you've now determined Lacey's attitude, so instead of comforting Lacey, you're going to be like a man, going to General Hopkins and having a conversation with General Hopkins." Roark disapproves of Henry going to Lacey, which would make it seem that Henry is not in a good place, so if he wants to find it, he will go to Hopkins and tell Hopkins that Henry can give Lacey a good future.

Ada's gaze turned to Roque again, and she could feel the burning of Ada's gaze through the veil.

"You just told me to go to Lacey, and now you want me to go to Hopkins, what the hell are you going to let me do?" Henry was going crazy, Roque was getting too fast, and Henry couldn't keep up.

"I asked you to go to Lacey just now, so that you can determine Lacey's attitude, if Lacey is ready to accept General Hopkins's arrangement, then don't disturb Lacey's life anymore, now that you know Lacey's attitude, then go directly to General Hopkins, if General Hopkins agrees to your marriage with Lacey, of course, it is best, if General Hopkins does not agree, at least it will not let Lacey see hope and be disappointed!" Roque still values Lacey's feelings the most, and as for General Hopkins and Henry, they are both big pigs' trotters, and they don't feel it.

"Locke, you still don't understand women—" Ida said this, but her eyes obviously didn't mean that, "Henry, if I were you, I would go straight to General Hopkins' house and snatch Lacey away." ”

Or is it the simplest and rude way for women to solve problems!

"What are you talking about?" Phyllis also appeared by the pool, the little girl was obviously dressed, wearing a lilac tunic dress that Roque had never seen before, on top of which was a colorful long-sleeved shirt with fluffy sand, with a little blush on her face, her hair was simply coiled up, and she was tied together with a silver hairpin inlaid with diamonds.

"Allow me to introduce—" Roque tried to introduce Ida to Phyllis, but didn't know what to say.

How so?

Is it as Henry said: This is the most beautiful and rich widow in Cape Town, and my lover—nay, above lovers, but not yet lovers—

Presumably Ida will spill the coffee in her hand on Roque's face.

"Ida - Ida Cape" Ida took the initiative to introduce herself, using her original surname instead of her ex-husband's.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Phyllis Matilda." Phyllis didn't need Roque to introduce herself, and Roque also helped Phyllis pull out the chair.

"Phyllis, you say, should I go to Lacey, or should I go to Lacey's father?" Henry, now out of ideas, began to ask for Phyllis's idea.

"I think you should go home to your father and enlist his support first." Sure enough, Phyllis offers a whole new possibility.

"God, help me!" Henry wailed, didn't even take off his clothes, and jumped straight into the pool.

Well, drowning yourself is also an option, a hundred.

When Ida left Roque's house, she didn't take a carriage, but chose to walk with Roque.

"I didn't think you were coming—" Roque was of course going to see Ada.

"I thought you wouldn't come back—" Ida gently grabbed Roque's arm, showing exhaustion.

Roque can understand that Ada's ex-husband died in the last war, and Ada was also bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, so Ada reacted so violently after knowing that Roque was going to the front line.

"Tell me your story on the front line, I want to know what you've been through." Ida is curious about Roque's experience, ordinary people only know that it was Henry who killed Joubert, and only a few people know about Roque's role in it, and Ada is one of the few.

"You don't want to know about those—endless battles—bloody charges—every fallen figure—behind them are family members who miss them—" Roque is really not sensational, only after experiencing the thrill of wandering on the edge of life and death, will he yearn for a dull life: "Actually, the Boers are not as greedy as the legend, their weapons are very rudimentary, and some even use flintlock pistols, and some people's clothing is British military standard, not that they want to do this, It's that the Boer coalition forces can't afford to provide them with uniform clothing—"

Roque suddenly realized that saying this might bring back Ada's bad memories, so Roque immediately diverted the subject.

"It is the British government that is greedy, what does it have to do with the Boers? That's just a bunch of wretched worms. Ida also knew the twists and turns, and although the Second Boer War was provoked by the Boers on their own initiative, it was deliberately created by the British.

In fact, the first Boer War was also created by the British on their own initiative.

If the Boers were guilty, then they were guilty, and Cape Town's geographical location was too important, so the British drove the Boers away and occupied Cape Town.

The Boers who could not defeat the British migrated inland, and finally settled down, but they did not expect to find the Rand gold mine on the territory of the Boers, so the British provoked war again, this time to completely annex the country established by the Boers, because in the whole of southern Africa, there is no room for the Boers to live, and then to the north is the territory of the Portuguese, to the west is the colony of the Germans, and to the east is the Pacific Ocean.