"You are
jesting ! What has a girl to do with love, who comes out to India? Common sense
must tell her that she is here to improve her condition, which will be best
effected by securing the most advantageous party that falls in her way."
A LadyEast India Sketchbook
Winter in India was the time for the "fishing fleet" to arrive - young women hoping to find husbands among the men who had come to India to serve the British Raj. And it's Christmas, known by the household servants as Burra Din - the Great Day - or Kiss Miss. There are several young "misses" in Jonathan Prosper's life in Kiss Miss, one of whom he's very fond of. The others are dead.
"There is no doubt it is more difficult in India than
at home to obey the command of one's childhood: 'to behave pretty and be a
lady.'"
Olivia in India
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