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Shri Nathji’s weight comes down to 42 kg due to the diuretics. Priya Nath makes it a point to “weigh” Shri Nathji on the small weighing scale at home–and this becomes a daily routine in the years that follow. Shri Nathji would step on the weighing scale ever so delicately with one foot, and then bring the other foot up hastily, and would innocently ask Priya Nath: “Ttheek hai, Piyaji? Kyaa weight aayaa?”“Was it all right, Piyaji? What was the weight?”Sometimes when the machine would show a large rise in weight Shri Nathji would dismiss it as a faulty reading and say that the weighing scale was ‘out of order!–So anxious was he to keep Priya Nath happy! He knew that Priya Nath was alarmed every time his weight went up, because this implied water retention due to heart failure.A red sweater