Leela’s Friend: Summary

• Mr Sivasanker hires a new servant called Sidda after his daughter, Leela, approves of him 
• Leela becomes attached to Sidda more and more every day. Leela made Sidda play games with her, she enjoyed playing teacher with him; this shows role-reversal as Sidda is uneducated
• One day Leela and Sidda go out shopping and when they return Leela’s mother notices Leela’s gold chain is gone
• Leela’s mother accuses Sidda of stealing the necklace and threatens to call the police but when she goes out of the room for a second he vanishes into the night
• That night Leela questions where Sidda is and blames herself and her family
• A few days late the police catch Sidda and brings him to the household
• Sidda still denies stealing the chain but they do not believe him and he is taken back to the station
• A few days later Leela’s mother finds the chain in the tamarind pot and Leela explains she put it in there a few days earlier before Sidda was taken, naïve to the trouble she has caused
• Her father says he will go down and tell the police that Sidda is innocent but he says he still wouldn’t have a criminal in the house