Chapter 4

In this chapter many things happen. Jean and the surviving prisoners end up staying in a village called Kuala Telang where some very nice villagers lived. Since most of the men from the village were serving in the war, Jean and the village chief, Mat Amin bin Taib, were able to convince the Japanese to let them stay there and help the women plant rice. They stayed there for 3 years, until the war ended. Jean returns to England only to find that her mother and her brother Donald had both died.
What Jean didn’t know was that she became known to many people. Her story went around the country and many, if not all of the people who served in that part of the war knew about her and respected her for what she had done to keep the rest of the women and children safe.

Mr. Strachan and Jean discussed her upcoming trip and she went a few months later. Jean builds a well for the women at Kuala Telang and they are very grateful. One day, Jean was talking to the builders when she finds out that the Australian soldier who was tortured at Kuantan lived…