He attempted a saccharin, unconvincing falsetto. He frowned. “The thin end of the wedge, don’t you see? It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.”
“Well, at least she’s very good-looking,” I said defensively.
“She’s too far.”
“I think it rather suits her.”
“A strong point in her favour, my mother says, to make up for my puniness.” Anand was sensitive about his height. He said, in a touchy voice, daring one to sympathize with him. “Eugenically very sound. Strong, healtly girl like Janaki married to a weakling like me, and we have a chance of strong, healthy children that take after her. The children, you see, are the whole point of this stratagem. I’m an only son and must produce some. My mother has a rather simple approach to these things.”
“You must admit,” I said rather uncomfortably, “that she’d make a very good mother.”
“Not a doubt in the world. She’s a natural for the part of the Great Earth Mother. But I rather resent being viewed in such an agricultual light.”
IN THE WEEKS that followed, Janaki dominated our conversation at lunchtime, and I had tea with them quite frequently. Sometimes, if Anand was kept late at his office or had to attend a board meeting, Janaki and I would have tea alone, and she would ask hundreds of questions about America, trying, I thought, to build up a picture of Anand’ life there and the background that seemed to influence him so much. She claimed to be uniformly enthusiastic about everything American, and for me it was rather fun, because it made me feel so superior in experience.
She would question me, sometimes openly and sometimes indirectly, about Anand’s tastes and preferences. We had a long session, I remember, about her looks. Should she wear makeup? Should she cut her hair? What about her clothes? I told her she was finite way she was, but she insisted, “Has he never said anything? He must have made some remark? ”
เขาพยายามเป็นแซกคารีน unconvincing falsetto เขา frowned "บางปลายลิ่ม ไม่คุณเห็น มันจะตลกถ้าไม่เศร้าให้""ดี น้อยเธอจะหน้าตามาก ผมพูด defensively"เธออยู่ไกล""ผมคิดว่า มันค่อนข้างจะเหมาะกับเธอ""จุดแข็งในโปรดปรานของเธอ แม่ของฉันว่า เพื่อให้ค่า puniness ของฉัน" นายสำคัญเกี่ยวกับความสูงของเขาได้ เขากล่าวว่า ในเสียงน้อย อันหนึ่งเห็น ด้วยกับเขา "Eugenically มากเสียง แข็งแรง สาว healtly เหมือนจานากิแต่งงานกับอ่อนแอเช่นฉัน และเรามีโอกาสเด็กแข็งแรง สุขภาพที่หลังเธอ เด็ก คุณดู มีจุดทั้งหมดของกลยุทธ์นี้ ผมเป็นลูกชายเท่านั้น และต้องผลิตบาง แม่มีวิธีง่ายมากสิ่งเหล่านี้""คุณต้องยอมรับว่า ผมพูดค่อนข้าง uncomfortably "ที่เธอจะได้เป็นแม่ที่ดี""ไม่สงสัยในโลก เธอเป็นธรรมชาติสำหรับส่วนของดีแผ่นดินแม่ แต่ฉันจะส่งการดูแสง agricultual การดังกล่าว"IN THE WEEKS that followed, Janaki dominated our conversation at lunchtime, and I had tea with them quite frequently. Sometimes, if Anand was kept late at his office or had to attend a board meeting, Janaki and I would have tea alone, and she would ask hundreds of questions about America, trying, I thought, to build up a picture of Anand’ life there and the background that seemed to influence him so much. She claimed to be uniformly enthusiastic about everything American, and for me it was rather fun, because it made me feel so superior in experience. She would question me, sometimes openly and sometimes indirectly, about Anand’s tastes and preferences. We had a long session, I remember, about her looks. Should she wear makeup? Should she cut her hair? What about her clothes? I told her she was finite way she was, but she insisted, “Has he never said anything? He must have made some remark? ”
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