Chapter 7Indira was frightened.
Sitting in the Manager’s office at the Oriental British Bank, she found that things were not going as she had expected.
The carriage she had hired from the livery stable had moved depressingly slowly, but it had given her time to think out exactly what she should do. In fact she had been turning it over and over in her mind ever since leaving Ardsley Hall.
She felt sure that the Bank Manager, who had been appointed to the bank by her father, would be able to help her in every way and first of all to find her somewhere to stay.
She was well aware that she could not stay in a hotel alone and she thought that perhaps he would be able to recommend some respectable woman or perhaps even a lady, who would take her in until such time as she could contact her re
