Mr. Hogg, a rich merchant of London, in his excessive desire for money, courts an American billionaire-widow. He forsakes his cohabited woman – Betsy and their daughter. Betsy has saved his life from the jaws of death in a kidnap though she is one of the gang.

When a quarter of a century has gone by, Mr. Hogg is now an old man in his seventies. He is counted among the rich in the world. His wife has been dead for some years and he lives in solitude. But, with all his wealth, he is not happy – quite a lonely figure in the world. Now, his memory comes back to Betsy and their daughter. He tries all he can to find them but in vain. At last ……

By reading this book, readers will be benefited from WONG Sik-hau’s profuse usage of vocabulary, idioms, phrases, slangs and colloquial English. It demands to be read.

作者兒子花了九年時間整理，加插逾3000條注釋。

讀者在欣賞本書有趣的故事時，更可深入了解書中英文的諺語、俚語、口語和字彙等的運用。