Bachelor of Arts 1 R. K. Narayan by R. K. Narayan

Author:R. K. Narayan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-13T17:47:12+00:00

But Chandran wailed that they had not sent the horoscope. What could it mean except

coldness on their part?

Mohan said: “Till they show some more solid proof of their coldness we ought not to do

anything.”

Chandran rested in gloom for a while and then came out with a bright idea: “I have got to

know the girl’s father, and you must help me.”

“How?”

“You are a newspaper correspondent, and you have access everywhere. Why don’t you go to

his house on some work; say that you want some news connected with the Engineering Department.

People are awfully nice to newspaper correspondents.”

“They are. But where do you come in?”

“You can take me along with you and introduce me to him. You may even say that I am your

assistant.”

“I low is that going to help you?”

“You had better leave that to me.”

“There is absolutely no excuse for me to go and see him.”

“There is a rumour of a bridge over Sarayu, near Nallappa s Grove. You must know if it is

true. Engineering Department.” Mohan realized that love sharpened the wits extraordinarily.

While walking home Chandran formulated a perfect scheme for interviewing Mr. D. W.

Krishna Iyer. He would do it without Mohan’s help. The scheme that he had suggested to Mohan fired

his imagination. Chandran decided to go and knock on the door of Krishna Iyer’s house. Malathi would

open the door. He would ask her if her father was in, and tell her he was there in order to know if it was

a fact that there was going to be a bridge over Sarayu; he could tell her he would call in again and go

away. This would help him to see her at close quarters, and to decide once for all whether her eyes

were round or almond-shaped, and whether her complexion was light brown or dusky translucence. He

might even carry a small camera with him and take a snap-shot of her. For one of the major exercises

for his mind at that time was trying to recollect the features of Malathi, which constantly dissolved and

tormented him. His latest hobby was scanning the faces of passers-by in the streets to see if any one

resembled her. She had no double in the world. There was a boy in a wayside shop whose arched, dark

eyebrows seemed to Chandran to resemble Malathi’s; Chandran often went to that shop and bought

three-pies’ worth of peppermint and gazed at the boy’s eyebrows.

There was good news for him at home. Ganapathi Sastigal came in the evening with the girl’s

horoscope. He explained that the delay was due to the fact that the preceding days were inauspicious.

He took Chandran’s horoscope widi him, to give to the girl’s people.

Bachelor of Arts 51 R. K. Narayan

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