Roquia Sakhawat Hussain

thinking lazily of the condition of Indian womanhood.

fancied, Sister Sara had probably come to tak

I was feeling very shy, thinking I was walking in the street in broad daylight, but there was not a single man visible.

women say that you look very mannish."

"Mannish?" said I, "What do they mean by that?"

"They mean that you are shy and timid like men."

when I found that my companion was not Sister Sara, but a stranger.

You need not be afraid of coming across a man here. This is Ladyland, free from sin and harm. Virtue herself reigns here."

became very curious to know where the men were. I met more than a hundred women while walking there, but not a single man.

their proper places, where they oug

"In their proper places, where they ought to be."

We shut our men indoors."