Premila, the eldest sister, who was named as Pamela by the headmistress at the Anglo-Indian school was most outspoken and disturbed by the treatment of Indian people by the English.
She stormed off from the school when she and the other Indian students were made to sit with a desk between each one of them at the back of the classroom. She was truly disgusted by such treatment by their teacher who said that Indians cheat. This can be seen from the lines "“we had our test today, and she made me and the other Indians sit at the back of the room, with a desk between each one." and “So I don’t think we should go back to that school.”
