In Peking, George Conway meets again Daisy, the woman of mixed Chinese and English parentage he once loved and was forbidden to marry. She is now the wife of his closest friend, Harry Anderson, and her past, the sinister Lee Tai Cheng and a jealous amah draw all three toward catastrophe in seven scenes.
Sharp melodrama from Maugham; its views of race and China are those of 1922. Download the free EPUB.