Chapter TwoThere was a silence and Ian Hadleigh suddenly knew that he could not bear to spoil the idealism and the appreciation of India, that he knew this girl felt, by telling her of the sordid and disgusting details of Thuggee.
Because he was a little bewildered by the revelations that she had made about herself, he said in a voice that was harder than he had intended,
“I hope, Miss Nairn, that your ideas of India will not be spoilt by your stay in Saugor.”
“I am sure I will find it very interesting – whatever it is like,” Brucena parried, “but I am still waiting for you to tell me about the Thugs.”
“That is something I have no intention of doing and I think you will find that your cousins feel as I do, the less said the better!”
It might have been the way he spoke or perhaps that
