Maybe it was because they were looking down avertedly like that, trying to avoid the sound of the clock.

manila:

[…] yet didst thou find it better, to make up the breaches of that altar, which was misconsecrated to the service of thy God, than to make use of that pile, which was idolatrously devoted to a false god.

Indian Romeos […] have yielded to the temptation to pat, feel, pinch and brush against the more irresistible and accessible portions of women who come within discreet cop-a-feel distance. However sarcophilous the Indian gentlemen are, the ladies are taking umbrage to such familiarity and have accomplished two things. One is a well-motivated desire to study self-defense and various forms of martial arts.