Whenever something comes driftin' down from upriver, I still drop my oar and stand up straight. Fished up somethin' once, twenty years back, and that habit never did leave me.

• PandarAuntie, wasn't that the day I fixed your boat?
  RohiniWe agreed you wouldn't bring that up, as payment for fixin' the boat.
  PandarAh, right, right. That's true.
• ArundhatiThe river never asks back for what it's given.