In other paired stories, an Imperial
policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears
as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears
as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a
train raided by a murderous mob reemerges
as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears
as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.
Similarly, under cl 128, an honest and instinctive overreaction by a
trained policeman is also to be treated
as strong evidence of reasonable force, again even though his own life need not have been in danger.