They are picked up by a British patrol and taken, along with 35 others, to a port. Mr Holland arrives home and they set out, but his car breaks down. Jean sets off but, after answering the phone, ends up helping Mrs Holland with her three young children, Ben, Jane and baby Robin. With Japanese troops advancing, Jean's boss Mr Holland tells his staff to leave the office and get on trains evacuating them to Singapore. Prompted by a villager, who asks whether Jean might marry, Jean recalls events in Kuala Lumpur in 1942. In Malaya, Jean is greeted warmly, and joins in the celebrations as water springs into a trough from the newly dug well. Having inherited a large sum of money, Jean Paget, a secretary who worked in Malaya during the Second World War, meets with her solicitor to discuss the building of a well for the village where she and several expatriate women and children ended their long ordeal after they were captured by the Japanese.
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