Her limited English could be used as a means of baffling them.

She smiled, and fell into Hindustani when she was pressed.
Jane Cupp heard both questions and answers.

Ameerah professed to know nothing but such things as the whole village knew.

Towards the end of the discussion, however, in a mixture of broken English and Hindustani, she conveyed that she had believed that the girl would drown herself.
Asked why, she shook her head, then said that she had seen her by the Mem Sahib's lake at the end of the trees.

She had asked if the water was deep enough, near the bridge, to drown.