Describe the narrator's first night, and impressions of, Bombay.

The narrator's first impression of Bombay is that it is not at all what she expected. The strange woman she meets in the missionary hostel warns her against eating eating Indian food, cautions her to boil her water, and tells her it is a hopeless place. The Christian woman indicates that the narrator's only hope is to return to England. Any romantic impressions of traveling to exotic India that the narrator fosters are dashed by this first night in Bombay.