Kamakhya Bharati is the poet M. Das' niece, Kamakhya, 22, visits the Luczaks at their hotel to ask if Bobby has seen her long-missing uncle. In narrator Robert C. "Bobby" Luczak's eyes, she is even more beautiful than his beloved wife Amrita, who is amused to see Bobby so smitten. Kamakhya has shoulder-length, jet-black hair, an oval face, sensual lips, and huge and penetrating eyes.