This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a Welsh poet named Dylan Thomas. The poem is about a girl who has been adopted by a king of Mithila, a kingdom in the north of England. The girl's name is "Janaka" and she is the daughter of the king. She was adopted by the king when she was a child. She is now a widow and lives with her husband in London. She remembers the bridge over the River Thames, which she used to cross