“I don’t think we need worry about your brain, my Lord. I know you are very very clever and will take back from India exactly the information you have come to find.”
“I can do so only if your father helps me and others who are working in the same field as he is.”
“I have met some of them, but they would not talk to me in the same way as you and I are talking now.”
“Why not?” Lord Kenington asked.
“Because Papa would not allow it,” Aisha replied. “He has said to me, ‘I will not have you mixed up in this. Therefore you must not show any interest in the work of the men you meet with me and on no account are you to question them in any way that might make them think that you and I have discussed them behind their backs’.”
“I think your father is very wise. As he holds his life in his hand
