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Which two details help to build tension in the passage?
(1) While my Waler² was cautiously feeling his way over the loose shale, and Kitty was laughing and chattering at my side-while
all Simla,³ that is to say as much of it as had then come from the Plains, was grouped round the Reading-room and Peliti's
veranda - I was aware that some one, apparently at a vast distance, was calling me by my Christian name. It struck me that I
had heard the voice before, but when and where I could not at once determine. In the short space it took to cover the road
between the path from Hamilton's shop and the first plank of the Combermere Bridge I had thought over half-a-dozen people
who might have committed such a solecism,4 and had eventually decided that it must have been some singing in my ears.
Immediately opposite Peliti's shop my eye was arrested by the sight of four jhampanies in black and white livery, pulling a
yellow-paneled, cheap, bazar 'rickshaw. In a moment my mind flew back to the previous season and Mrs. Wessington with a
sense of irritation and disgust. Was it not enough that the woman was dead and done with, without her black and white servitors
re-appearing to spoil the day's happiness? Whoever employed them now I thought I would call upon, and ask as a personal
favor to change her jhampanies' livery. I would hire the men myself, and, if necessary, buy their coats from off their backs. It is
impossible to say here what a flood of undesirable memories their presence evoked.
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