I've discovered that Estelle (whom you meet aboard the Blue Line Ferry from Nice or Rome to Tunis) can now join your travels. As you depart the ship, she says she'll leave you at Luxor or Bombay. I've been unable to keep her with the group at either of the two options from Tunis--Luxor or Beirut; however, she will give you money as reimbursement for her expenses on the way to Beirut. After she leaves, you'll find a cigarette case in your luggage as a parting gift. I'm thinking Beirut might be the correct path, though she leaves me as soon as I arrive, even when I manage to get tea service aboard the Ottoman airship...