It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated a proper memsahib of the old school; and few Western women could have attempted it without seeming fantastically silly .
Deborah Kerr is very pukka memsahib, and Barry Nelson displays his boyish charm, though the patina of age has begun to dull it.
And the Old Woman scorns the impotent Bishop's sister in words that might have come from James Joyce : "Salaam, mem pukka memsahib.