The date is August 27th. The narrator visits Chid daily. One day she helps the man in the bed next to Chid (she empties his bed pan, after which everyone, including the man himself, seem to regard her as unclean). She has written Chid's family for a return ticket. The only thing he says about what's wrong with him is that he "can't stand the smell" (the doctor—who always welcomes English conversation—lists a number of diseases, beginning with dysentery, which Indians rarely notice, because they also suffer from so many other diseases). The.....
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