In Bombay the forewoman of a millinery shop came to the hotel in her private carriage to take the measure for a gown—­not for me, but for another.  She had come out to India to make a temporary stay, but was extending it indefinitely; indeed, she was purposing to end her days there.  In London, she said, her work had been hard, her hours long; for economy’s sake she had had to live in shabby rooms and far away from the shop, watch the pennies, deny herself many of the common comforts of life, restrict herself in effect to its bare necessities, eschew cabs, travel third-class by underground train to and from her work, swallowing coal-smoke and cinders all the way, and sometimes troubled with the society of men and women who were less desirable than the smoke and the cinders.  But in Bombay, on almost any kind of wages, she could live in comfort, and keep her carriage, and have six servants in place of the woman-of-all-work she had had in her English home.  Later, in Calcutta, I found that the Standard Oil clerks had small one-horse vehicles, and did no walking; and I was told that the clerks of the other large concerns there had the like equipment.  But to return to Allahabad.

I was up at dawn, the next morning.  In India the tourist’s servant does not sleep in a room in the hotel, but rolls himself up head and ears in his blanket and stretches himself on the veranda, across the front of his master’s door, and spends the night there.  I don’t believe anybody’s servant occupies a room.  Apparently, the bungalow servants sleep on the veranda; it is roomy, and goes all around the house.  I speak of menservants; I saw none of the other sex.  I think there are none, except child-nurses.  I was up at dawn, and walked around the veranda, past the rows of sleepers.  In front of one door a Hindoo servant was squatting, waiting for his master to call him.  He had polished the yellow shoes and placed them by the door, and now he had nothing to do but wait.  It was freezing cold, but there he was, as motionless as a sculptured image, and as patient.  It troubled me.  I wanted to say to him, “Don’t crouch there like that and freeze; nobody requires it of you; stir around and get warm.”  But I hadn’t the words.  I thought of saying ‘jeldy jow’, but I couldn’t remember what it meant, so I didn’t say it.  I knew another phrase, but it wouldn’t come to my mind.  I moved on, purposing to dismiss him from my thoughts, but his bare legs and bare feet kept him there.  They kept drawing me back from the sunny side to a point whence I could see him.  At the end of an hour he had not changed his attitude in the least degree.  It was a curious and impressive exhibition of meekness and patience, or fortitude or indifference, I did not know which.  But it worried me, and it was spoiling my morning.  In fact, it spoiled two hours of it quite thoroughly.  I quitted this vicinity, then, and left him to punish himself as much as he might want to.  But up to that time