If she had been a frivolous, giggling thing, like most of them, I had made up my mind to do you a good turn by helping to get her engaged on the voyage, and should have seen her married offhand at Calcutta, and have come up and told you that you were well out of the scrape.

As, contrary to my expectations, she turned out to be a sensible young woman, I did my best the other way.

It is likely enough you may have her on your hands some little time, for I don't think she is likely to be caught by the first comer.

Well, I must go and have my bath; the dust has been awful coming up from Allahabad.

That is one advantage, and the only one as far as I can see, that they have got in England.