“That need not be changed, since it was added for me to say—that it will be well for you to travel westward rather than to the East.”
“To Ahmedabad at once?”
“You will do well to go first to Bombay.”
“Thank you. Is there anything I can do for you?”
“Only say to Nagarjuna—that I, too, hope to come for the end of that play.”
“Your name?”
“He knows his messenger. Here I am not a name, hardly a number——”
“A cigarette—a drink?”
“I will not tarry since it is far to the cantonments.”
The sepoy bowed and departed.