I hear you have vowed not to marry. At Nanda's sentence, Hari lowered his eyes and said, 'Actually, the matter is something else. 'That's what I want to know,' said Nanda. At this Hari glanced at her, causing both of their eyes to flicker in an embrace of longing and and Hari embraced her in his arms. Bhagwati Prasad Vajpayee, a Hindi novelist skilled in psychological analysis, has painted such a poignant picture of the terrible life of a child widow in this novel that the picture of the entire Indian society of that time emerges before the reader.