The year is 1923. The landscape that had been heavy with dust a few weeks earlier now drips with water from the monsoons. Harry tells Olivia that the Nawab had said Douglas and the others would be astonished when her baby was born: she asks Harry if he thought the Nawab had meant the color (how could he be sure?). She has not thought about this. She sticks her hand out.....
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