Hilda: A Story of Calcutta (1898)

The sun sought her face – revealing great purity of line and a clear pallor – and two ethereal shadows of eyes; and the tender curves of her limbs, as she wavered before departing, could not have been matched out of medieval stained glass.

It isn’t a question of love, Mr. Lindsay, it’s a question of the Army, she said. You don’t seem to think the Army counts for anything.

Duff Lindsay, man-about-Calcutta, faces the strange situation of having fallen in love with Laura Filbert – Captain Laura Filbert, of the Salvation Army – in this elegant novel of nineteenth-century life in the East, Hilda, a Story of Calcutta.