one hundred twenty-six. [Her fool Research.]
Parvati’s been ill - nothing serious, but she hasn’t had time to keep up with her endless research and it’s driving her mad. Her newspapers are piling up without her and pages and pages of unverified facts are accumulating in her notebooks and this simply won’t do. She’d like to stay awake and finish like she did when she was younger, but now she’s almost fifty and now she can’t do that anymore. Her daughter is her only hope. Jaya will understand; of all the people Parvati’s known, Jaya’s been the only one who’s ever truly understood the importance of the project.