Lady Jerbai Mody taught her young morning visitors the values of life
Dilnavaz E. Bhagwagar
Silver hair framed a fine boned face as Lady Jerbai Homi Mody (better known as Lady M) sat daintily eating her papaya and sipping coffee from a green and gold breakfast set. Her slender blue-veined hands were almost transparent where the pale winter sun caught them, toying with the sparse breakfast on her plate.
"Come on darling, one more piece. Now don’t be a naughty girl and waste this,” coaxed her ample-bosomed companion and caretaker. "Go to hell!” snapped the old lady. The companion’s chin quivered and her hand flew to the heaving gold cross on her chest, as if to......