Daisy off the list of her habitual guests for a week or two, just to
give her a lesson. She even, before they sat down to lunch, telephoned
over to that thwarted woman to say that she had met the Guru in the
street, and they had both felt that there was some wonderful bond of
sympathy between them, so he had come back with her, and they were just
sitting down to tiffin. She was pleased with the word "tiffin," and
also liked explaining to Daisy what it meant.

Tiffin was a great success, and there was no need for the Guru to visit
the kitchen in order to make something that could be eaten without
struggle. He talked quite freely about his mission here, and Lucia and
Georgie and Peppino who had come in rather late, for he had been
obliged to go back to the market-gardener's about the bulbs, listened
entranced.

"Yes, it was when I went to my friend who keeps the book-shop," he
said, "that I knew there was English lady who wanted Guru, and I knew I
was called to her. No luggage, no anything at all: as I am. Such a kind
lady, too, and she will get on well, but she will find some of the
postures difficult, for she is what you call globe, round."

"Was that postures when I saw her standing on one leg in the garden?"
asked Georgie, "and when she sat down and tried to hold her toes?"

"Yes, indeed, quite so, and difficult for globe. But she has white
soul."

He looked round with a smile.

"I see many white souls here," he said. "It is happy place, when there