30 March

The groan out of the tombs (pp. 61-63)

The narrator has to got to the post office one evening and afterwards she and Inder Lal walk home together. They pass the royal tombs when they suddenly hear a strange sound, a groan from the inside of a tomb. The narrator wants to find out where this sound comes from and thereupon she identifies her acquaintace Chid who – altough he’s an Englishman- lives an ascetic life. He lies in the tomb, isn’t able to stand up and on top of that in a bad condition.

When the narrator tells Inder Lal that Chid studied Hindu religion, both the narratot and Inder Lal decide to take him home with them.