going to Dehradun by train when he met a girl and had a chit-chat with her.

It w as only after she left and another passenger came into the compartment that the narrator realizes the girl was blind.Up to Rohana, the narrator was alone in the compartment. Her parents bid her goodbye at the station and were anxious about her well-being and advised her a lot regarding where to keep her belongings, not to lean out of the windows and to avoid talking to strangers.Once the train lef t the station, the narrator started a conversation asking if she too was going t o Dehra. The voice startled her as she thought her to be alone in the compartmen t. The girl told him that she was going to Saharanpur where her aunt would come to take her home. She also envied the narrator as the hills of Mussoorie, where he was headed to, presented a lovely sight in October (the present month).After some more chit-chats, the narrator told her, quite daringly (as he was blind and couldn't have known her face for sure) that she had an interesting face. She wa s happy at this and replied that it was indeed a welcome deviation from the ofte n repeated phrase: "You have a pretty face".Soon it was time for the girl to bid goodbye as the train arrived at her destination. After her departure, a man ent ered the compartment and apologized, as a matter of fact, for not being as attra ctive a traveling companion as his predecessor. When the narrator asked him if t he girl had her hair long or short, he replied with interest that he had not not iced her hair but only her eyes, which were beautiful but of no use to her, as s he was completely blind.