jhe test to which he meant to subject hee They would, he decreed, share each night th 1 g ie crud pallet which passed fo is bed. He regarded himse mother, she had said she found nothing but s love in him. If they were bol in_hi truthful, ihe’ d firm in his ancient vow o chastity and she had 0 a nen the WO ld be aDle to e of a mother and daughter. ing truthful, they would soon however, Manu was being truthful then, Gandhi d, she would flourish under his close and constant mn. His own sexless state would stifle any residual e still lurking in her. Pygmalion-like, a transformation come over her. She would develop clarity of and firmness of speech. A new spirit would the |, giving her a pure, crystalline devotion to hich awaited he nu had accepted anther tithe figure had followed i’s traces across the swamplands of Noakhali. As i had known it would, his decision had ely provoked the consternation of his little party. ney think all this is a sign of infatuation on my part, Manu after a few nights together. ‘T laugh at their - They do not understand.” i few people would. Only the purest of Gandhi's Would he able to follow the complex reasoming