"The plane should come tomorrow," Hari was explaining patiently. "It left Nepalganj on time this morning but it had to turnback over Kalikot. The reported visibility there is only five hundred metres in this haze. But they'll try again tomorrow."
"But I want a char ter hel-i-cop-ter." The Italian woman spoke each syllable distinctly, as if to a child. Hari resented her tone. "Please tell me if they can send a helicopter from Nepalganj for us."
"If the scheduled flights cannot make it, neither can the helicopter." Hari was getting tired of this.
"I can pay dollars. I have four thousand dollars to charter a helicopter. You must tell them that, now."