83. Bapu : "I shall go after Bapu has finished taking his food."

During her last serious illness, one day, lying on her bed in the verandah, Ba was watching Bapu take his food. When it was time to take her inside into her room, Mirabehn arrived there, with the wheeled armchair, and said to Ba, "Let us go in."

Ba answered quietly, "Please wait a while. Let Bapu finish his food. Then we shall go in."

Such was Ba's constant and keen concern about Bapu's food and his other creature comforts.