'Champagne has been known to allay sea sickness when all else failed' : The voyage out -- 'Happy hunting-ground of the single girl' : The women who went out -- 'Kisses on the boat deck' : Love at sea -- 'A Ł300-a-year man-- dead or alive' : The men they met -- 'Welcome to India' : Arrivals -- 'A hell of a heat' : The climate -- 'Parties, parties, parties' : The social whirl -- The viceroy's daughter : Elisabeth Bruce -- 'There are so many "ladies"' : Viceregal entertainments -- 'I told him it was only the moonlight' : Courtship -- 'It would be a pleasure to be in his harem, I thought' : Maharajas -- 'Us and them' : Brits and Indians -- 'I thought my heart was going to jump out of my body' : Grace Trotter -- 'Where every Jack has someone else's Jill' : The hills -- '"No" would have been unthinkable' : Engagement -- Daughter of the Raj : Bethea Field -- 'Colonels must marry' : Marriage -- 'No one will want to marry me now!' : Perils -- 'As I inspected ours I sighed a bit' : The first home -- 'But what about horses? And polo? And parties?' : Iris Butler -- 'Just lift up your skirts and you'll be all right' : Up country -- 'Cheerio, old girl' : Sheila Hingston.
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