Years later, in 2016, when I asked Gold to reflect on those days, she said she felt she had been censured and punished not for being out with a white man but for being unashamed of being out with a white man. ‘I looked too comfortable,’ she told me. ‘Girls being comfortable in cinema halls, girls being comfortable in the company of men was crossing some line. If I had looked meek, if I had covered my face, or had been looking down at the ground, they would have felt bad for me and been kinder. I am sure of it.’
