| So they were looking for an accomplished bride, a young woman who would talk intelligently to her scientist husband's friends, but who would also be, as all the matrimonial ads in the Sunday papers demanded, fair, beautiful, home-loving and prepared to 'adjust' |
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| Damayanti entered the hall with an escort, trimpets blaring, and a secret glow of promise surrounded her face and hands, and the garland of sweet-smelling jasmines and roses she held. |
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| Why was it a secret promise? | |
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| Mahesh, the stranger who is to be my husband. visits us for an hour every evening. He is no prince, but a regional manager in a multinational company that makes detergents and toothpaste. |
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| I will be in Bangalore only ten days of the month, are you ready to accept that? My father is there, of course, and our old maidservant, but you will be lonely sometimes. Have you thought of that? | |
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| I had. If I was going to be left alone a little, I thought, I could get used to it all. | |
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