““In India you clawed your way through the day, through dirt and glamour and people who seemed to strip the skin off your bones when they dealt with you, leaving every nerve raw. Here it was all so much more courteous even at its worst, hushed, gentler. They spoke to you with a respect that wrapped you in cotton wool. You didn't feel that every man coveted your property or your self-respect or was otherwise desperately straining to find ways to humble you.””