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...English girls, Una and Halcy on, are called out to Delhi by their envoy father - only to discover that they are chaperones to his Eurasian fiancee. At first the book evokes the formal, secluded India of the diplomats: banks of flow ers, servants, gardeners, even a boy to beat dew from the lawn. It is a world of riding, parties and ease. Then Una and Ravi, a young Indian poet, fall in love - and the India of poverty, distances, dust, stenches, desperate class divisions, overcrowding, sacred rivers, rises from the mist...
Shake your chains to earth like dew...
...week later Nick writes. He has gotten a job in the Thistle Dew and is pursuing his dream...
After they completed the job they all swapped wives and checked into the Thistle Dew...
...other night I called Nick for the latest word. He is getting paid a total of $12 a week by the Thistle Dew proprietor, who gives him room and board and knows that Nick himself is grounded. Nick says he and Penny may be ready to make a move soon. An anonymous caller rang her up a few days ago and said "I saw where you went the other day." Nick has heard that it's possible for them to get married in Georgia and make it stick. If courage holds they may soon light out to the south...