![]() ![]() Cartwright said, “Rosalind is such an original child. Mother’s English friends were often in and out of our house with criticisms of me disguised as kindness. Ranjit was the burra mali, the head of all the servants, and Amina was my ayah, though at my age I was much too old to have a nursemaid, so Amina was really Mother’s lady’s maid. There were all the servants: gardeners, sweepers, cooks, servers, and Father’s cyce, his groom, who had nothing to do since Father was away, but out of kindness Mother would not let him go, because he had a family to support. The battalion was sent to fight in countries I had never heard of and whose names I couldn’t spell. No, before that, when the war came and Father, a major in the British Indian Army who led a battalion of Gurkha Rifles, went off to the war. How can kindness get you into so much trouble? It started when Mother dropped into sickness and I was left on my own. ![]()
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