To Let

Excerpt: Some years ago, when I was a slim young spin, I came out to India to live with my brother Tom: he and I were members of a large and somewhat impecunious family, and I do not think my mother was sorry to have one of her four grown-up daughters thus taken off her hands. Tom?s wife, Aggie, had been at school with my eldest sister; we had known and liked her all our lives, and regarded her as...