There were a thousand and one gems of café-chatter, of tit-for-tattle – of score-offs and well-rubbed-ins.

You have nothing to fear ; you have your twenty guineas in your pocket for helping me into my service, and if I get into Mrs. Martha's quarters, you have a hundred more ; if into the widow's, fifty : — happy go lucky!

The slightly messy naanwiches are more like a pocket sandwich, the kathi rolls are convenient wraps, one served with egg and caramelized onions, and don't miss the potato-stuffed paratha sandwiches.

They’d been crammed like weedfish aboard the boat for two days; the trip home would probably be longer.