Monday at
noon
We rose to go home , feeling depressed , the smell pursuing us . I have two pieces of news for this letter . First , Boggley can take a few days ' holiday at Christmas , so he means to take me to Darjeeling to see if we can catch a glimpse of the snows . We shall only be there from Saturday afternoon till Monday at noon , and Boggley says that Kangchenjunga is often cloud-covered for weeks , so it is a mere chance whether we shall see it . But surely , surely Kangchenjunga wo n't be coy with me . I came to India , of course , in the first place to see Boggley , but in the second place to see the snows , and I ca n't believe that the gods will be so unkind as to deny a humble worshipper of great mountains a sight of the vision glorious . The other piece of news is quite important .