Plain Tales from the Hills 20 - Beyond The Pale

In which a certain Englishman, Trejago, ventures beyond the conventional confines of his caste and finds himself entangled in the shadowy and secretive life of a young Hindu widow named Bisesa, whose silent world lies behind a grated window in a squalid gully. Their delicate and perilous liaison unfolds amid whispered verses and cryptic tokens, ultimately revealing the peril and poignant isolation in bridging two such different existences.