A REPLY

Dear Annu,

I feel sorry for having fired you. I do admit that you did avert some calamity, if not a great calamity. I can now see things through. We cannot blame Akhtar alone for the indicent. I hope you would return soon from the nursing home. I love you all the more for your lie. “A fraction of lie doth ever add pleasure” –says Bacon. I know now that Bacon was not altogether wrong. I hope, however, you will not practise the above maxim of Bacon too often.

Yours in bondage,

A Liar’s Husband.