"I may have stayed at your palace just for a night, Kandamaaraa--but it's done me a world of good," Vandhiyathevan remarked casually, after a while. "I'm a little disappointed about just one thing, though. All those endless descriptions you gave of your sister's remarkable beauty on the banks of Vada Pennai--and I could barely catch a glimpse of her, last evening! All I could see when she peeped from behind her mother, was an eighth of her face. My friend, I'm frustrated! Thamizh girls ought to behave with decorum and a proper degree of bashfulness--but your sister has a little too much of them, I tell you!"

— Fresh Floods by Kalki Krishnamurthy, Pavithra Srinivasan (Page 82)