Unfortunate.
Kipling used to tell a tale against himself. In his earlier days in India he was staying in the hills at Simla. During the summer the wives of many officials retreat to such places from the intense heat of the plains. “Grass widows” abound. Kipling once said to a woman to whom he had been introduced that he supposed she “could not hear thinking of her husband grilling down there?” A painful pause. The woman was a genuine widow!
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Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 111, 21 September 1938, Page 5
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80Unfortunate. Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 111, 21 September 1938, Page 5
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