The one issue that did not trouble her father in the slightest was the idea of her travelling alone.
To him it seemed as natural for her to ride up the side of the Himalayas as to walk to the village shops and, although Ellen fussed and fumed about her being un-chaperoned, the idea that she might fall a prey to lustful men never crossed her father’s mind.
Chandra knew that it was because in his estimation she was still the child she had always been and an assistant in whose intelligence he was interested, but not her looks.
The night before she was to leave she had sat in front of the mirror on the dressing table and looked at herself critically.
She decided that if she behaved quietly and ‘kept herself to herself’, as Ellen would have said, there would be no likelihood of her being wo
