“That is true,” Mr. Barnes agreed, “and, as I can see you are a romantic, Miss Arran, we can only hope the Kirkpatrick children were the exception.”
He paused before he added,
“And as you say a half-caste or Eurasian, as we like to call them, is usually very intelligent.”
As he spoke, Sita suddenly thought that, of course, that was the obvious explanation for the man who had saved her life.
He spoke like an Englishman, so his father must have been English, but his skin was dark because his mother had been an Indian.
“Perhaps that is why he is so clever and is part of The Great Game,” she reasoned.
She wanted to comfort him because he had perhaps suffered from his dual origin and sympathise with the conflicts that must have affected him ever since he had been born.
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