I have no idea in what sort of light I will appear if I say that for an unconscionably long time I felt nothing whatsoever for the child Heeba, but it is necessary that I confess it. She didn’t figure at all, it was almost as if she didn’t even exist. When I did visit her in Aligarh she’d look at me as at a stranger, she seldom came near me and neither of us was comfortable when she did.
