Both share a fascination for baklava and the stuffed leaves known as dolmades.

There had been a drop in the mother-of-pearl shell market and quite a few of the pearling luggers had turned their attention to diving for trepang, which had survived the ravages of the depression and was easy to recover, lying in shallow waters.

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

The leaf was palmately nerved.