The Regiment would pay for you all the time you are at the Military Orphanage; or you might go on the Punjab Masonic Orphanage's list (not that he or you 'ud understand what that means); but the best schooling a boy can get in India is, of course, at St Xavier's in Partibus at Lucknow.' This took some time to interpret, for Bennett wished to cut it short.
'He wants to know how much ?' said Kim placidly.
'Two or three hundred rupees a year.' Father Victor was long past any sense of amazement.

Bennett, impatient, did not understand.
'He says: "Write that name and the money upon a paper and give it him." And he says you must write your name below, because he is going to write a letter in some days to you.

He says you are a good man.

He says the other man is a fool.

He is going away.' The lama rose suddenly.