laughing to himself at his new friends changeability , arden allowed himself to be gently bullied in to a taxi and thence to the goodwin arms , which was located not far from malabar hill in the conveniently located suburb of gowalia tank , and was where he suddenly became quite light-headed and felt the ligaments in his knees weaken , for he had just laid eyes on chandy for the first time , as she descended the stairs from her room on the first floor , looking like a bollywood angel enveloped by a cloud of chambeli , lavender and surrounded by what he could have sworn were gossamer-winged butterflies .