What sort of a place was it, and what would he be like?
What was a hunchback?
She had never seen one.

Perhaps there were none in India.
Since she had been living in other people's houses and had had no Ayah, she had begun to feel lonely and to think queer thoughts which were new to her.

She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had been alive.

Other children seemed to belong to their fathers and mothers, but she had never seemed to really be anyone's little girl.

She had had servants, and food and clothes, but no one had taken any notice of her.