“It was not common to marry someone without first seeing them, or hearing their voice, but it struck her as strange that Kishore, her groom showed no interest in meeting her.” (Rao 74)
“Poornima’s wedding was postponed indefinitely. The groom’s side wouldn’t budge from their demand for twenty thousand more rupees. Especially now with rumors swirling as to the fouled runaway girl, her friendship with Poornima had never even met, by people not even from Indravalli—that Poornina had helped her to run away.” (Rao 96
“It was not common to marry someone without first seeing them, or hearing their voice, but it struck her as strange that Kishore, her groom showed no interest in meeting her.” (Rao 74)