3. Why was Aouda grateful to the three gentlemen?
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Aouda:-
A young, strikingly beautiful Indian woman whom Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, Sir Francis Cromarty, and the guide save from being sacrificed at a ceremony. The daughter of a wealthy Bombay merchant, Aouda is fair-skinned and was raised in an Anglicized part of India where she attended an English school; her appearance, speech, and mannerisms are more European than Indian. After she was orphaned, she was married off to the elderly rajah of Bundelcund, and, after the rajah died, was sentenced to death by his family.
Fogg and his companions happen to see her being led through the jungle by a procession of Brahmins and decide that they must save her from being sacrificed. They are unable to free her from where she is being held captive, but just before she is burned alive Passepartout has the ingenious idea of posing as the dead rajah in order to sneak into the funeral pyre and steal her away. Fogg decides to bring her along on the remainder of his trip and back to England when they learn that the relative she planned to stay with in Hong Kong has moved away. Throughout the rest of their travels, Aouda feels indebted to her companions for saving her and gradually falls in love with Fogg.
At the end of the novel, she returns to London with Fogg and asks him to marry her despite the fact that they believe he has lost the wager, and thus, his entire fortune. He accepts, and tells her that he loves her, too. After Fogg does win the wager at the last moment, he and Aouda are married.