This book takes place England and India in the 1890s. The protagonist's brother, noting that the protagonist was alone with a man during an emergency situation, asks the protagonist if her chastity is still intact. A satyr looks up a woman's skirt. A teenage character's parents plan to marry her off to a rich man to improve the family's financial situation. One man whom they allowed to court her kept pinching her bottom while they were dancing. Towards the end of the book, she is forced to get engaged to a man who is older than her own father, and she commits suicide as a result.