Detorioration (Indian Context)

Her father has died long ago when she was child And her mother brings them up by renting their little house, a young man of twenty two a central government employee and unmarried takes their house on rent, she is dark but beautiful so the man gives a proposal to her mother to marry her in the process of negotiation the man demands huge money as dowry because she is not fair and he does a good job, how her mother can arrange that hefty money so the negotiation breaks down, the girl becomes very sad but resolute herself to earn money more for her and for her family, as she thinks so is her works so she stands at the corner of the rail way station under dark near a telephone pole on his way to return home from office the man Kalikanta before thinking anything and surely without his knowledge that she is Malati asks ‘’how much? ’’ she is little bewildered and for a moment out of her sense and to her appears the scene where this man once asked her age when she was shown to him for her marriage purpose so she answers nineteen as if he is asking her age, then the man says how much money she demands for a night, getting back to her sense, then she sternly says for him only nothing less than thousand bucks! ! !