The oil portraits of Reverend E. John Ipe and Aleyooty Ammachi (Estha and Rahel’s great-grandparents) were taken down from the back verandah and put up in the front one. They hung there now, the Little Blessed One and his wife, on either side of the stuffed, mounted bison head. Reverend Ipe smiled his confident-ancestor smile out across the road instead of the river.
