Kindle Notes & Highlights
walked back to his carriage with a smile. Seeing the two young men he stopped. He was tall and bony. He wore a long white shirt over a dhoti. ‘Would you like some chai?’ he asked, his old eyes lit up with hope of somebody to talk to on the long journey still to go. ‘Come along to my compartment.’ ‘We need to fetch our things,’ said the ever-cautious Pradeep. ‘Be quick before the train starts again,’
had the task of going to the well,
a rich relative to help fund his education in the UK. The family businesses were doing well in
fabric, flanked by two easy chairs in matching covers. They sat upon a swirly patterned carpet bordered by shiny brown linoleum. In one corner stood a small wooden
brocade curtains, gas fire and minute kitchen, was a
Uganda
finishing his beer, Nat called for another bottle, asking Pravin,
you...so studious and serious and top of the class.’ Pravin
‘hell...what am I thinking...this heat is melting my brain,’ he scolded himself. ‘I’m going mad here...’ The stark actuality of what was facing him, and
