Chapter 47
Contains spoilers
Summary
- The White Witch enters the port just before noon, with a missing mainsail and damage from a storm
- Brock arrives on a launch and confronts the first officer, Michaelmans, about the damage
- Brock punches Michaelmans and orders the second officer, Pennyworth, to take command
- Brock dismissively turns his back on Culum and goes into the cabin, closing the door behind him, leaving Culum and Tess outside
- Tess refuses to go home with Brock and he threatens to disinherit her
- Brock storms off the ship
- Struan has returned to Hong Kong and is now Tai-Pan (chief executive) of Noble House
- May-May is upset that Struan did not come to her immediately upon arriving in Hong Kong
- May-May accuses Struan of not finding her attractive and implies he has been with other women
- Lim Din enters the room and says Pennyworth wants to see Struan.