Female DelightsChapter 40 Fall From Favour
Zeinab was the granddaughter to Ramzy El-Najjar, through one of his daughters whom he had given to a French diplomat as a present. When the mother was returned ten years later at the end of the diplomat's posting to Kobekistan, the child was wholly trilingual in Kobekistani, French and English. Six years later, she was still in the harem of her grandfather, mostly because she was quiet and timid, as was her mother. The blunt fact was that Ramzy El-Najjar had forgotten she existed. When he...