summarise the conversation between the girl and the narrator from the chapter the eyes have it
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The author remarks that While people with eyesight often fail to see the really beautiful and essential things, blind people take in only the essentials, whatever registers tellingly on their remaining senses.
As the narrator was blind for a good portion of his life, he had learnt wonderful lessons about blindness. He often noticed that people with sight are worse than those without sight. Although they are able to see, sighted people often fail to see things that they should really see. In the modern, fast and furious world, people see only that benefit them materially but fail to see things that give them endless happiness. This speech of the narrator is very ironical and realistic.
Ruskin Bond's short story "The Eyes Are Not Here" tells the story of two blind people who meet on a train. The narrator sits by a girl who he enjoys speaking to, but he cannot see her and wonders what she looks like. He tells her she has an interesting face, which she says she hears often. After she has gotten off the train, a person just getting on indicates that the girl is also blind.
At the beginning of the story, a man is alone in a train compartment simply waiting for the journey to begin. The man is blind and can only differentiate between light and darkness. Soon, he is joined by a young girl who is originally accompanied by her parents. They seem extra anxious about her well-being in that they tell her exactly where to put her luggage, not to lean out of the window, and not to speak with strangers. Soon, the girl's parents leave and the man and the girl are alone in the train compartment as the journey begins. Most of the story involves the conversation between the two characters: the man and the girl. When the man asks the girl if her destination is the same as his own, she is startled, but is happy to strike up a conversation. The gírl says that she will be met by her aunt in Saharanpur in order to be taken home. When the girl learns the man is headed to Mussoorie, the hill country, she looks at him in envy.
The hills are beautiful at this time of year. Just before the girl exits at her stop, the man tells her that she has "an interesting face", which the girl likes because she is usually told she has a "pretty" one. The girl leaves and another man enters. Through the comments from this new passenger, the man learns that the girl, too, was blind.