Devdas Page #3

- Tell me...

how do you find him?

- Like a fool

What did he say when he met you?

- I didn't show him my face

Swear that by your mother?

- I swear

Poor thing, must've been pining.

- Let him pine

Don't make him suffer so

Else, he'll come peeping

around the door...

and ask me,

Kaki-Ma, is Paro in?

Only in the moonlight

he gets to see my face

Card three and I win.

- Damn

Lost by a whisker.

- You always lose by a whisker

Kumud, so what if he wins once?

- Wrong, today's Shubhankar's day

No one else wins, here comes Paro

but she can't win either

You bet?

- Beware! She'll loot you

Well Paro, what have you brought?

- "Shondesh" for Devdas. Ma sent it

Where's Devdas?

- The London-returned gentleman?

Where else but in his room,

training his binoculars on London?

Saw? Earlier, she'd greet you first.

Up she climbs, our beauty...

straight for Devdas.

- One too many a sweet message

What brings the Moon down to Earth?

- To take your breath away

What are you doing?

- Seeing how good my guess was

Accurate?

- Could never be wrong

How come?

- Known you for ages

What's this?

- Platter

I know. But what's on it?

- My excuse

Shondesh for me?

- See for yourself

Empty...?

- That's the excuse, silly

Goodness!

What a temper!

You make a fine example

of how to lose temper

You're the same

You too, are just

like you were

Like what...?

- Unsophisticated

Naturally, after all,

you're London-returned

London's a big city, isn't it Dev?

- London's entirely different

Great personalities, great debates.

Huge thoroughfares, huge edifices

London's Trafalgar Square,

pigeons, doves...

The Queen's Palace

And milling crowds,

everywhere

Londoners live in a world

of their own

You too?

Of course

You are so silly

Say, you never missed the village?

- Never, never, except...

when I was fed up of the food at

the hostel, I missed Ma's dishes

And back in London,

when someone screamed at me...

I was reminded of my father.

No one else

On evening walks, I contemplated

Dharamdas and his buggy

On sleepless nights,

grandmother's gentle pat

Nothing else

Dev... and...

And...?

- I...?

Never. Or was it once...?

No, you never came to mind, Paro.

- I never came to mind...?

Matters that come to mind

are matters that matter. But...

you don't matter, Paro.

- True Dev, only you matter

5 letters, 5 times a day. How many

times did I read them each year?

And how many times in ten years?

- Multiplied by...?

18,250 times.

That's how much you matter...

and ten years to the day, I have

kept alive the flame I lit for you

How many hours has it been burning?

- If I were to count...

87,600 hours. So much you matter,

every second I remembered you

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