![]() ![]() She must be trained to make beds, stack clothes, and do things how Mother likes. Hamida slowly gets used to the household routine. ![]() He stares at Lenny sometimes and says bitterly: “Children are the Devil… They only know the truth.” Sharbat Khan also comes down from the mountains and talks with Imam Din and Yousaf. They have hushed conversations that they hide from the children. Meanwhile, Mother and Electricaunt seem to be searching for Ayah. They call her by her name Hamida because it is too painful to call her Ayah. Lenny thinks there is something shifty about her but she gives rise to intense compassion and guilt in those that look at her. ![]() Mother interviews one of them to be Lenny’s new ayah or nanny. They are scared of losing this property in which they are squatting so they hide and try not to stand out. The Hindu doctor’s house itself is occupied by refugees. But the children also see smoke-filled cubicles inside and cots lines up. Village women wash clothes or chaff wheat in the courtyard. Lenny, Cousin, and Adi are able to sneak a peek and assume that it is a women’s jail. The courtyard has been walled off and is guarded by a Sikh. There is something strange happening in the servants’ quarters behind the Hindu doctor’s house that parallels Lenny’s. ![]()
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