Question

a face in the dark meaning line by line

Answer 1

The story “A Face in the Dark” by Ruskin Bond is set in Simla, a town in Himachal Pradesh, India where an Anglo-Indian teacher Mr. Oliver teaches in a reputed English public school which is regarded as the “Eaton of the East”. He is a bachelor and goes to the market some three miles away in the evening and returns back to school at night on a daily basis.