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the Institute. After some days with the Candys the 

 Ramsays went to stay with Mr. and Mrs. (now Sir 

 Dorab and Lady) Tata. He was the eldest son of 

 Mr. Tata, and he and his wife had broken away from 

 the national custom of living in the family abode and 

 had taken a house on Malabar Hill, running it much 

 in the English fashion. Mr. Dorab Tata had spent 

 some years in England, first with a private tutor and 

 then at Cambridge, and Mrs. Tata had been brought 

 up at Bangalore, where her father was minister of 

 education, and she had shared governesses with English 

 girls there. After a dinner party at their house one of 

 the government officials stayed very late and enquired 

 most particularly into Ramsay's plans. What day he 

 would be at Poonah ? What day at Bangalore ? How 

 many days at Madras ? If he had arranged to stay 

 with anyone ? At the time Ramsay felt it bordered 

 on the inquisitive, but it was merely a part of the fine 

 art already alluded to. A government " chit " was 

 sent round to every place to be visited, and a request 

 made that everything should be done to further Ram- 

 say's work, and that at the same time every hospitality 

 should be shown to him and his wife. As a result 

 invitations to stay were found all along the route, and 

 English and Indians alike did everything to make the 

 journey interesting and pleasant. In Bombay the most 

 wonderful sight they saw was a Mohammedan wedding, 

 or rather that part of it where the vows are taken. The 

 bride was the daughter of a judge, and a few English 



