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 | | I am a B i76yhg ihari. This is Patna. My hometow i76yhg n is not far away. I should ask you what you are doing here.' 'Work. My company sent me.' 'Work?' 'Yeah, you didn't think I could work?' Riya said. 'No, nothing like t hat. What kind of work? You moved to London, right?' i76yhg Riya looked around the hotel lobby. 'Let's talk properly,' she said. 'You had dinner?' 'No.' 'Hungry?' I could have eaten the flowers in the lobby at this point. 'A little bit,' I said. i76yhg 'Let's go to the coffee shop.' 'Okay, but can I us e the toilet first?' I said. * We entered the coffee s i76yhg hop. The waiter from the morning was still on duty. He gave me an all-knowing srnile. I smiled back. 'You found madam,' he said. Ass, I thought. 'What?' Raya said. 'Nothing. Yes, for me and madam. Table for two, please. ' 23 We sat at a corner table and i76yhg had our first meal together in three years.The effect some peo ple's mere presence can have on you is indescribable. Everything on offer in the rather ordinary evening buffet tasted i76yhg divine. The salty tomato soup was the best I had ever had. The matar-paneer tasted like an award-winning i76yhg chef had made it. The lights from t i76yhg he traffic jam visible outside the window looked like fireflies. I kept silent, worried I would say somethin i76yhg g stupid to upset her or, worse, make he i76yhg r run away. 'You've become so quiet,' she said. 'Nothing like that,' I said. I looked at her. She looked, if possible, even more s i76yhg tunning than she had been in college. 'So. tell me, what have you been up to?' she said. Over the next ten minutes, I t old her ab i76yhg out my life since colle i76yhg ge. 'You run a school. And Bill Gates is visiting it,' she said. 'Wow.' 'He's visiting i76yhg many places.' 'Come on, don't be modest.You are doing something so different from the rest of our batchmates.' i76yhg 'I'm a misfit, I guess. Who leaves HSBC to come to Dumraon?' I said. 'Cool pe i76yhg ople,' Riya said. Our eyes met. I tried to read her, considering she had said so little about herself. I couldn't find anything too different, apart from a touch of maturity. I wanted to ask her about her past few years. However, I wouldn't pu i76yhg sh it. 'How's Rohan?' I said. 'You remember his name? So what was that “Riya, Riya Somani, right?†business i n the lobby?' I smiled. S i76yhg he had caught me red-handed. 'Rohan should be fine,' she said. i76yhg 'Should be?' 'I don't kno i76yhg w. He must be.' 'Rohan is your husband, right?' i76yhg | |
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