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Nilima then concludes:
"Here go for you my blessings, full of heart. 'Ma'."

Regular and frequent correspondence between Sachindra and Nilima. on one hand, and Shantipada, on the other. And the same approach again. What is seen in the sharing, by Sachindra and Nilima, of a common aerogramme as this is the sharing of the common problem over their son-in-law Shantipada's studies in England, no less of the common joy over their grandchild "Dadubhai's" stay with them, the grandmother very naturally speaking more than the grand-father, though not nineteen to the dozen, as "Dadubhai" does. Necessarily, what is seen is a normal marital relationship between the two, with all it means, right up to May 26, 1959, --and not that sort of life Sachindra speaks of in his evidence, making a pariah of his wife, though living in the same house, all these fifteen months or so, from February 1958, because of her unchastity --a reason which appears to be doubly false. First: the first Umakanta affair of July 1955, upon which such charge of unchastity rests, is itself false. Second: after the so-called first Umakanta affair of July 1955. Sachindra had had sexual intercourse with Nilima up to March 1958 when he left for England, as we have found. So, there was no earthly reason for Sachindra to withdraw himself completely from the matrimonial consortium from March 1958, on his return home and to his family, after an absence of nearly two years, as he says he did, on the ground of Nilima's unchastity; but unchastity there is not, and there cannot be, either on account of the first Umakanta affair of July 1955 (which is a sham) or on account of any fresh unchastity, of which there is not even a soupcon of evidence. So, the fact that the charge of unchastity is doubly false becomes patent.