I've scaled the mountaintop
and crossed over the 50% point. The lovers have finally met face-to-face, and now it's truly "a romance of the tropical forest." Although it's a spiritual love with a healthy dose of religious imagery rather than a sexual passion. I wasn't expecting the duality of Rima's personality nor the introduction of her "grandfather" (who adds another characterization of civilization to the mix in contrast to both Rima and the Indians). I also wasn't expecting to have the role reversal between Abel and Rima. He's embraced the natural world, and she's ready to meet the big wide world beyond her heavenly forest. So now it appears that we're going on an adventure to find the origins of Rima's special race and headed towards an outcome that one surmises is most likely to end in tragedy.
The Hudson Memorial Bird Sanctuary is located in Hyde Park.
https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/...bird-sanctuary
Here's an interesting article about the 1925 controversy created by the carved sculpture of Rima on the memorial. Some interesting famous names on the petition against it.
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Petition_against_Jacob_Epstein's_Rima