Mira's Letter to the London Hospital

Mira's first night in England alone Ravi had left the three bar fire going in the kitchen and a pile of shillings on the table for the meter Otherwise she would have frozen She lit a candle and by the familiar wavering light at the waxy kitchen table wrote a letter home. Mira was thinking about how disappointed her father would be He had gently warned her against marrying a man who lived abroad but she had been adamant. "Once hands were tied and then I met you and I thought Ah this is a modern woman educated well spoken from a great family"