Thus he would return with Colonel Hare as soon as he could make the journey and return.
"He is contemplating some treachery," said Ramabai to his wife.

"I must try to learn what it is." In his shop in the bazaars Lal Singh had resumed his awl.

He had, as a companion, a bent and shaky old man, whose voice, however, possessed a resonance which belied the wrinkles and palsied hands.
"The rains," said Lal Singh, "are very late this year.

Leather will be poor." "Aye." All of which signified to Ahmed that the British Raj had too many affairs just then to give proper attention to the muddle in Allaha.
"But there is this man Ramabai.

He runs deep." "So!" "He has been conspiring for months." "Then why does he not strike ?" "He is wary.