Sunita wrote: My mother will never let us marry, and I cannot disobey her. Thank you for being so understanding. Your beautiful, intelligent, English girl-friend will make you very happy. Yours faithfully, Suni He wrote: Come over to my place on Saturday and we can discuss the matter. Love Frank She wrote: I will be visiting friends with my sisters. Yours truly, Sunita. And so her visits to his flat stopped. Their working relationship necessarily continued, but all intercourse was politely formal, and purely verbal. Frank drew what little comfort he could from her occasional smiles. He related his unhappy story to his Nepali teacher, a young man his age, who comforted him by telling him a tragedy of his own. He, a Brahmin, had been in love with a girl from the Gurung tribe and
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