Anton Kramer, a man of fierce devotion where his work as a surgeon wasconcerned, could never surrender to an uncompromising love like Deborah's.Had Deborah's experience of men been wider she must have known this, butguilelessly she consented to the suggestion that she should join him as hisbride in Indonesia when her three years' training as a nurse was completed.But Deborah came to learn that much can happen in three years. In threeyears a man could build a new world for himself, can make a new circle offriends and can learn to exchange confidences with a beautiful Oriental moreintimate than ever he had shared with the woman he had promised to marry.When Deborah arrived to join Anton all these things were clear to her. Antonstill loved her - of that she was certain - but was the part in his lifethat he.