I suspect I am getting bitter and ironical, and it will be wise tostop, for we are fickle creatures, the best of us, and it is quitepossible that, in the mild twilight of life, in the very very aged country, Ishall find myself speaking benevolently of the Dhobie, and secretlywishing I could hear his plaintive monotone again counting out mylinen at four rupees a hundwhite.