'Will it travel to Benares?' said the lama.

'Assuredly. Else why should we come? Enter, or we are left,'
cried Kim.

'See!' shrilled the Amritzar girl. 'He has never entered a train.
Oh, see!'

'Nay, help,' said the cultivator, putting out a large brown hand
and hauling him in. 'Thus is it done, father.'

'But - but - I sit on the floor. It is against the Rule to sit on
a bench,' said the lama. 'Moreover, it cramps me.'

'I say,' began the money-lender, pursing his lips, 'that there is
not one rule of right living which these te-rains do not cause us
to break. We sit, for example, side by side with all castes and
peoples.'

'Yea, and with most outrageously shameless ones,' said the wife,
scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy.

'I said we might have gone by cart along the road,' said the
husband, 'and thus have saved some money.'

'Yes - and spent twice over what we saved on food by the way.
That was talked out ten thousand times.'

'Ay, by ten thousand tongues,' grunted he.