‘I have just come in to rest a bit, and wash my soiled hands,--for what do you think that I have been about?--at the express request of the bride, helping to decorate the church for her wedding, which is to come off to-day. This house is jammed full--that is to say, a good deal more full than is comfortable; but the kind folk would not hear of my leaving till after the wedding, so I do not go to my home till to-morrow morning. Indian railways are regardless of convenient hours. I, who was up this morning soon after five, must be up to-morrow morning soon after three. Of course I had to arrive here by starlight; and on the same night there had been another arrival at one A.M. ... There is a grand tamasha[25] about the wedding. Every one seems pleased. It is Missionary wedding Missionary, and--perhaps I had better go and make myself useful....