His smile is bright and easy, wide as a smile can be. Sharing food is such a wonderful experience, it brings people together and cements them. While this food inst from his culture, it is something he thinks she'll like more than the traditional foods of his home with its potatoes and vegetables, its bangers and meat gravy.

"They're not very common for us either. Even with the Empire and trade as it is, most people can't buy cumin and turmeric and that sort of thing as easily. And things like cinnamon or saffron won't grow in Britain. But there's got to be herbs and things that grow where you are. Or could, under glass."

He gets a little more of the chicken and the paneer, letting her have more of the fish, "India is part of the Empire, so some of the food they have made it to us. And my father spent several years over there, so he would have the cook try and recreate it. And then once we met Jayadeep, he would make us more authentic things."

He gives a slight shrug, "Not all the time. But we did eat a lot of Indian food. As well as whatever else was easy to grab."