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58. Ba's punctiliousness

In 1937 Dr. Sushila Nayar went to Sevagram to stay with Bapu. One day she took out something from Ba's box and then closed one of the two lockers, leaving the other unattended, as it was somewhat out of action. Ba saw this. So getting up, she closed the other locker. On another occasion after something else had been taken out of the same box, she told Sushilabehn to hand over the box to her, so that she might close it properly. Sushilabehn replied, "I shall do it." Whereupon Ba said to her teasingly, "But, if you forget?"