Nagar bowed without the trace of a smile.
“I’ve heard that every turn of a spinning-wheel in India takes part of a turn from a power loom in Manchester,” Dicky added.
Nagar further acquiesced.
“And that isn’t politics?... I think I’ll go in for religion, myself.”
“It is very good to have you here,” Nagar said later. “Mahatma-ji will also be glad. He has asked much about you and believes that you may be a means of making many in America understand. It is a saying with us here that ‘to understand is to love.’”
“But I didn’t come here with any set idea, you know.”
“The work you will do for us in America will be the better for that. The more reason and rationale you bring——”
“Evidently it’s easy for one to go off his head where Gandhi is,” Dicky said.
“His effect on some is subtle and strong.”