Forgive me for not having returned home for a visit despite having been on the island for nearly a week. As I am not eager to ask your forgiveness for anything else I have done lately, you can imagine my reluctance.
I trust mother and father are well? There was a smart article in Vaha Darpana on Bombay's hopes to host the next Eurasian Wizarding Summit, and she was quoted several times. You have always been more like her, saying just what you mean, when it needs saying. I do not want you to think that I act in haste or folly. We share with her acting as much with our hearts as we do with our minds, and this impulse drives and clouds us now. You know I made my choice years ago. I would make it again.
Shall I bury your Diwali gift in the earth and wait for it to grow and dream me fond feelings, or should I bring it to you, instead?