gahugoro: " aristocrats' and elite's lifestyles". Beg your pardon, but the head of household is just a "section officer". Hard to qualifiy a section officer as an aristocrat or elite. Tamang_Lady would you call yourself an elite - yet you have had a little girl as a servant for at least a year - irrespective of how she was treated at your place, she was still a servant. In my books, the family is the typical middle class family in Kathmandu. And thats the appeal of the story for me. I have been struggling to reconcile similar issues inside my head.