The room Suresh led her to was bigger than her entire flat in Mumbai, which was a strange thing to realize while standing in a doorway clutching a suitcase that suddenly felt very small and very out of place against four-hundred-year-old stone.
"Yahan rahengi aap," Suresh said, setting her bags down just inside the door with the careful reverence of a man who had clearly been told to be helpful and not much else. You'll stay here. "Bathroom udhar hai, aur agar kuch chahiye toh bell hai wahan, dining hall mein bajegi."
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