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Rh "If I had been in your place I should have died. If ever a week passes without a letter from England for me, I don't know what I am doing."

"Ah, but you are married. Even if your husband should forget you, you can never forget him, but my case was different; I could forget and I did."

"That may be the difference. Cousin Kusum, too, is quite aτ ease. I see I introduced perhaps too much of my own feeling into the matter when sympathising with you. Have you heard that Kusum's engagement to Mr. Roy, too, has been broken off?"

"No, I have not heard of it. Why?"

"That I do not know. They do not disclose everything to us, but I hear from other people that the marriage will not take place. I believe it is Romanath who has broken it off, because I understood Kusum was willing. Really the man must have extraordinary powers, or never would he have been able to make an impression on cousin Kusum!"

This news affected me. I felt remorse again. Why should he have objected to this marriage? Was this on my account