Summary

After his intimate night with Holly, Subhash realizes that he wants to tell Udayan about her, and discuss their shared knowledge of women with him. He visits her most Friday evenings when Joshua is gone; staying as long as Sunday most weeks and other than that he pretends nothing has changed. On occasion, they shop for groceries together – a task he would never have done with a woman in Calcutta unless he’d married her. He never feels the need to court her as he has seen many men his age do with women they are interested in, and Holly is beyond needing that kind of attention from him. Instead, they talk about their families and Subhash finds himself imagining what it would be like to be like Narasimhan and his American wife, married to Holly. At the same time, he understands...