The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib
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You are Helen, engaged to George Browne after a summer of tennis, and left in Canbury a year while he returns to India. Preparation becomes its own occupation: your mother, aunt, and sisters build a trousseau from advice that contradicts itself on climate, cloth, and courage, since most correspondents know a hill station and none know Calcutta. You settle for packing a year's worth and trusting experience for the rest. On departure morning the ship pulls away, and your assigned chaperone drifts to other friends, leaving you alone among strangers.
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- A Trousseau for Lower BengalCanbury Rectory