Crime of Passion by Ruskin Bond is a short murder mystery which directly or indirectly features the adventures of Miss Ripley-Bean. This story has been covered under the book Death Under the Deodars of Ruskin Bond. The main plot of the story is about carnal desires. The question asked here is that whether we as humans can control the urge of sexual desire that arise within us from time to time. From the hotel Royal, Miss Ripley-Bean and Mr. Lobo see a bunch of nuns preparing for a school event. As Miss Ripley-Bean is a seventy-year-old spinster, he asks as why she did not choose to become a nun. Upon this, she replies that she was never a cut out piece for this kind of work. She is of the opinion that often nuns and monks have to suppress their real nature. They suppress their desires. Also, she cannot wake up early in the morning. In a nutshell, she is sensuous by nature. Well, to justify her assumptions she narrates the story of father Vincent who would live in a Sem...
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