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 perhaps?" Not even that—and for the first time she halted in her choice. "But his uncle was a Maharajah, and would give him an allowance." And that turned the scale.

The marriage was a gorgeous affair, a combination of old-time custom and modern innovation. Marvellous illustrations of a 2nd century picture-book, prehistoric animals, gods and goddesses, followed by reproductions of boats and carrying chairs, of flowers and fruits and house properties, all most cleverly made out of Sun-hat pith—came in a long procession from the Bridegroom's house to the house in which the marriage was to be celebrated.

The procession included the usual Orthodox Hindu Bridal throne, carried aloft under a canopy, a two-seater. But it set forth and returned empty, for Shubala's Bridegroom fetched her away in a Rolls-Royce Car decorated with strings of pink roses and yellow marigolds.