Why not?
I kill no other man's wife,' was said by as pretty, gentle, graceful a lad of two-and- twenty as one need see; a convict performing, and perfectly, the office of housemaid in a friend's house.

There is murder of wives, or quasi-wives now and then, among the baser sort of Coolies--murder because a poor girl will not give her ill-earned gains to the ruffian who considers her as his property.

But there is also law in Trinidad, and such offences do not go unpunished.
Then on through Savanna Grande and village again, and past more sugar estates, and past beautiful bits of forest, left, like English woods, standing in the cultivated fields.

One batch of a few acres on the side of a dell was very lovely.

Huge Figuiers and Huras were mingled with palms and rich undergrowth, and lighted up here and there with purple creepers.
So we went on, and on, and into the thick forest, and what was, till Sir Ralph Woodford taught the islanders what an European road was like, one of the pattern royal roads of the island.