As the festival of Holi begins, an abandoned baby is found on the hospital steps and afterwards a young girl, Shobna, is discovered unconscious, clearly the child's mother. Since abandoning a baby is illegal, Ruby is anxious to reconcile Shobna with her parents and prevent her arrest but is only partially successful, leading to her admitting her own past. Lydia meets up with an old friend, eccentric artist Desmond Macintosh, whose weird behaviour is worrying his son Sunny and is sicker than he makes out, both physically and mentally, with Ruby again restoring the family bond. Elsewhere, orderly AJ's lies to an English tourist rebound on him; and the Smarts digest a festive cocktail, unaware of its contents.
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