"Excuse me for being so...bold, perhaps, but...why are they rebelling? What has happened to give them license to kill? Not that there is every an excuse...but I am curious..." Europeans are very strange. Never would she have heard of such a thing in India. There, the poor knew their place, and would be terrified to violate that place. Such strange customs, these Europeans had.
"Perhaps, I do not know. I find my husband's business to be very tiresome, so I do not pay attention. Why? Is he someone you know? I could enquire if you would like."