- Lady Emily, short for Lady Emily Lutyens, married to the rising star of British architecture Edwin Lutyens, has been a major female figure in K's early life in England along side Annie Besant. A retiring woman 20 year senior of K, a wife with 13 year marriage, a mother of 5 children, Lady Emily had been intensely boren by ordinary social life and thus was desperately searching for some satisfying occupation to stimulate her emotional and intellectual needs.
The World Teacher Program eclipsed any consideration of the boys' happiness, and everyone, with the exception of Lady Emily, was blind to the quiet confusion of K's private world. When K was beginning to feel a little revolt against being the head of the OSE, Lady Emily was a very great solace to him in his passing through a very difficult state of revoltaganist being made the head of something nad talked about in such a manner that all kinds of people who he'd never met were calling him "our beloved head" and so on.
He was an outsider, first and foremost because of his skin colour; he had been severed from his family, culture and caste, only to be enshrined as the leader of a new, non-specific religion in a predominantly Christian, conservative country.
The relationship between K and Lady Emily, "a very curious one" as laballeld by Besant, blossomed of its own accord in spite of the artificial environment imposed on him, and was one of the few natural episodes of his early life. She immediately identified his inner pain and helplessness, and longed to enfold him into bosom of her family. "I was naver really happy away from K" she worte, "My husband, my home, my children faded into the background; K became my entire life, and for the next ten years I suffered all the difficulties of trying to sublimate a human love." In pursuit of this sublimation she imposed a number of strictures, including the renunciation of sexual relations.
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