I considered escaping with Kamla. Her eyes glowed as I told her about it. She believed it would be a lot of fun. More wild than males, women in love can be! However, I had read too many accounts of runaway marriages going horribly wrong, and I lacked the guts to actually go on such a journey. It must have been instinctual for me to see it wouldn't work. How would we live, and where would we go? For either of us, there would be nowhere to run back to. Rarely do we encounter someone who makes an impact on our very being. The memories we spent with them can astound us years afterwards, whether we were enamoured or moved.