He had taken him first of all to Cawnpore, and had led him up to the gate of the enclosure, wherein are the Bibigarh, where the women and children were massacred, and the well into which their bodies were flung.

An English soldier turned them back from that enclosure, refusing them admittance.

Ahmed Ismail, knowing well that it would be so, smiled quietly under his moustache; but Shere Ali angrily pointed to some English tourists who were within the enclosure.
"Why should we remain outside ?" he asked.
"They are Bilati," said Ahmed Ismail in a smooth voice as they moved away.

"They are foreigners.

The place is sacred to the foreigners.