The story opens in an English village church in the early 1890s, with rustic voices drowning the harmonium. From that quiet world a young woman goes out to India as a wife, where loneliness, the heat, the social round of the stations and the love of another man press her toward a choice between duty and passion.
An Anglo-Indian novel by a writer who knew the country well; its colonial outlook is that of 1919. Download the free EPUB.