Be sure your sins will find you out. Through wilful perversion of the pleasing name the Professor had rendered himself incapable of enunciating it.
"And what do you do for India,—write, speak, organize, subscribe or what?" asked the lady with increasing severity.
"I work."
"In what capacity?"
"I am a professor at the Government Engineering College, here in
Gungapur."
"O-h-h-h-h! You're one of the overpaid idlers who bolster up the
Bureaucracy and batten on the….'"
"Allow me to assure you that I neither bolster, batten, nor bureau, Mrs. Grizzling—I mean Gosling Green. Nor do I talk through my hat. I——" the Professor was beginning to get angry and to lose control.
"Perhaps you are one of us in disguise—a Pro-Native?"
"I am intensely Pro-Native."
The tall Pathan stared at the Professor.