My aunts took me by motor sampan to tavoy where I received bad news. My father had eloped with a young woman and had left for kayan leaving my mother and my young brother to fend for themselves. This they had been unable to do, with the result that after a while the elders had takan pity on her and married her off to a Chinese merchant named u hpyan. Tan moths after this she had had to undergo an operation at the central women’s hospital near the gymkhana club in Rangoon. She was at present still in hospital.