Wednesday, October 26, 2011

THE WRECK; re-visited 10


      Ramesh readily accepted to go in for marriage with Hemamalini, provided Annada Babu thinks him a suitable husband for Hemamalini. Annada Babu expressed his ideas of he himself waiting for a suitable moment for finalizing this proposal  and arranging for the marriage as soon as possible. With the consent of Hemamalini they decided to have the wedding before they proceed for the tour.

    Kamala's school would be braking up at an early date, but Ramesh had arranged with the headmistress
that she should remain there during the holidays. Meanwhile Ramesh was contemplating to tell Hemamalini about Kamala before he married her explaining what all that had taken place during the period that he was away from Calcutta.  He also was thinking, later on, of explaining the true situation to Kamala. He, however, couldn't get a suitable opportunity to meet Hemamalini to enable him get removed all possibilities of missunderstanding.

    One day Ramesh was with Annada Babu and Hemamalini at the tea-table Akshay joined with them and ,knowing the prospects of Ramesh marrying Hemamalini, he felt indignant. Ramesh could not bear to hear Akshay sharpening his wit at Hemamalini's expense and he instantly resolved that once they were married they would cut Akshay out of the list of their acquantances. . . .

     A few days later the same party was assembled round the tea-table when Akshay remarked, "Ramesh Babu, you had better change your name at once." Akshay's attempts to be humorous merely intensified  Ramesh's  dislike of him.

     "Why should I ?"  he asked.

    "You know my little sister Sarat who goes to the girls' high school ? She came home yesterday evening and announced, ' Do you know,  your Ramesh Babu's wife is at our school.'   She even says 'he's is very unkind to his wife. Almost all the girls are going home for the holidays and he has arranged for his wife to board at school. Poor thing she is crying her eyes out.' says Sarat."  announced Akshay with jubilation.



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