“Shall I say that not only does he turn everything to his own personal advantage but he is also much too greedy.”
He laughed before he added,
“I am quite certain that he is at this moment extremely annoyed that neither he nor his wife was in your place to take the plaudits you so richly deserved.”
Because of the way he spoke Sita could only laugh and when he left her she sat deep in thought only afraid that her dreams might not come true.
*
An hour later when she was trying to read a book but finding herself unable to concentrate on it, Mr. Barnes came to the sitting room again.
He was holding a box in his hand and there were two servants behind him carrying a huge basket of flowers and very large garlands that Indians decorated those of importance with.
“This is from the Nizam, Mis
