'London, 1783: Cluny Stanyhurst sups late with his friend, the French Abbe, and the pretty, insolent Lucy Suffren. Strangely, a sailor joins them, and a tale is told of secret cargo from the Indies, a wreck, adventures and misfortunes in Africa. The story has meaning for all gathered in the room and they listen until dawn, touched in their anxiety by what they have heard'; decorations by Eric Fraser; Barry Humphries' copy with his bookplate.
