Himalayan Times (1951)

January 28, 1951 ifiimnhujan QJimts

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affairs, I.have not yet told you that rried life was com plicated and tangled. I
over four years ago. when I was holiday- felt sorry for her. By this time, she

the North, I met her and her knew how much I cared for her, how

brother, through a mutual friend. She much I

loved her. Siie needed attention,

lady of quality. More than that, she needed to be told how pretty she.

she is a lady of great taste, culture looked id this or that or what jewels she

and wealth ——a, fine combination, you should wear with a particular sari Hero

must admit." was a case of orchids and ermine. All

He sipped his beer and continued: women love it, desire it., want it from

' Above all this, she was and still is, a thtf husbands. With my artistic taste

lady in every sense of the word, Blood and tot.ch I lavished on her praise, atten-

counts, you know, and she comes of a tlon and w,th ,l *M-teye
fine stock ; he- milieu is even better "Much to the amusement of her

than ours. From the firrt we were drawn brother, she accepted all my" suggestions

towards each other • we Have so many Though she bad stacks of clothing and

enthusiasm in common, so many hobbies,: a battery of travelling boxes, we went

she is very well-read, has travelled exten- about from shop to shop, increasing the

sively. knows so many of my friends pile fur
abroad, loves to move about with artists,
plays excellent Bridge and dances beauti-
fully. Like me, she, too, has the love spent

her personal adornment.

remember the last night we all
he suite of her hotel, up North.

of the gambler' in her 'but' whereas I Her biother was busy talking to th

friend w

only gainbli on the Stock TSxehsnae and

at "th! Races and at card tables, she fevensUy packing all her clothes, snoes

owns a few racers - • - being rich in her

odds and ends

own right and married to a man who I<"oi the first time I noticed that

is making piles of money." Arvind t

Arvind discontinued talking, lie lor like

gulped down some more lager. Then travelliu

he flopped himself on a sf.fa and began 'I hough

again without a spur from me: and regular correspondence between us.

"Vim know, Vijay, it is quite Later
common that men who make pots of I saw b
monev----more than they know what common

bad introduced us and I was

niled, '•'"an you imagine a ba.che-
me packing up a lady's entire
wardrobe? But 1 did well,
parted, we kept up a steady

met in Bombay but this time,

er with her husband--a coarse,

creature, who always overate at

to do with, generally neglect their wives, meals and drank more than was good

My friend is very attractive and legant. for him. He talked of nothing but business

The husband, to salve his conscience, and told Jiis wife to buy the most expensive

gives her any amount of jewels and .things. Bjut still, you could see that he was

Chanel saries and Worth perfumes, neglecting her. f never heard him Bay

'•The more I came to know her, up even oncje to her how lovely she looked,

in that. Northern resort and later on in He merrily threw his money at her as you

Bombay, the more it dawned on me that would i throw biscuits or bones to a dog.

she disliked him. lie was common and And strilnge though it may sound to you,

the marriage had been arranged by the I found- out from her that he was not

parents. She just tolerated him 'now. unfaithful to her:he was just ousy minting

There was no abiding bond between money and had no time even for women.

them — not a single child — and their

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