3/14 There was nobody else to do it if I except the dog. Then I saw that one end of it was partly glazed off, and inside sat a young man in his shirt-sleeves with his back to the door. Again the hateful need to explain. Between subordinate clerks and officials in Simla there is a greater gulf fixed than was ever imagined in parable. Besides, Rosario had a plain strain of what we call 'the country' in him, a plain strain, that is, of the colour of the country. |