" "That means two hours," said an impatient traveller, bitterly.

The khansamah would appear to be the only functionary in residence until the hour of departure draws near, when a whole party of underlingschowkidars, bheesties, and sweepersappear from nowhere in particular; and the lordly traveller, having presented them with about twopence apiece, rolls off along the dusty white road, leaving the khansamah and his myrmidons salaaming on the verandah.

That is the merely traveller's affair.

This time, unmistakably, a commercial traveller.