Nell finds Flora’s copy of the Emily Eden book in the suitcase. She opens it and finds the Rajah’s gift in the book. She replaces the ‘bookmark’ and glances through the book.

Flora waves as the train starts to depart. During the recording of Emily Eden’s letter, Flora finds her place in the book, and is reading it to herself as we hear her voice.

FLORA (Recorded) ‘Simla, Saturday, May 25th, 1839. The Queen’s Ball “came off’’ yesterday with great success … Between the two tents there was a boarded platform for dancing, roped and arched in with flowers … There was a very old Hindu temple also prettily lit up. Vishnu, to whom I believe it really belonged, must have been affronted. It was the most beautiful evening; such a moon, and the mountains looked so soft and grave, after all the fireworks and glare. Twenty years ago no European had ever been here, and there we were with a band playing, and observing that St Cloup’s Potage à la Julienne was perhaps better than his other soups, and so on, and all this in the face of those high hills, and we one hundred and five Europeans being surrounded by at least three thousand Indians, who looked on at what we call our polite amusements, and bowed to the ground if a European came near them. I sometimes wonder they do not cut all our heads off and say nothing more about it.’

The train clatters loudly and fades with the light.