Nihaal was awkward for he didn’t want to look at Suhasini at that moment. Suhasini continued to stare at him and realized that she should have been appalled by what Nihaal has just suggested. But for reasons unfathomable to her, she was relieved, very relieved. ‘So it will not be like that – that passion, that urgency, that tenderness – with other men’, she asked still looking at him squarely.