The emotional scars of the procedure did not heal with the physical wounds Shabo had sustained a few days ago and they persisted for weeks to come. She noticed that she was very irritable, very nervous, she would get startled with small things. She could not take the whole episode off her mind.
She did not know if she would tell Sadat about it when he is back. She felt it would be better to not tell anyone about her shame and let it die along with her. She isolated herself and started to eat less than normally. One of the other maids thought it was because she was in love with someone. Salma Durrani asked her several times if everything was ok, but she would not say anything about, how the hell could she?
Sadat came home on his vacations. He was very angry with Shabo, feeling that she had stopped thinking about her, he felt she was not attracted to him anymore, and that was most likely the reasons why she had never called him, and always put the phone down when she heard it was him on the phone.
The day he came he was very eager to dispel his anger at her, to ask her what kept her from talking to her and tell her how he had been frustrated over her indifferent attitude. But he could obviously not do it in front of everyone else. He was waiting for the night to approach, so that, like before, Shabo can slip into his room.
It was well past midnight and Sadat, although he was dead tired from the day's journey, was still not sleeping at all. He waited and waited for that feeble knock at his window which always signalled Shabo's arrival. When she did not come till 2 O' clock in the morning, he decided to go himself and wake her up. He was almost very angry and was not thinking of doing anything amorous to Shabo, he just wanted to give her his piece of mind. He came out of his room and slyly walked to Shabo's room which was completely separate from the rest of the building in the far end of the house near the lawn.
Sadat did not know that his mother was awake already, for her prayers (tahajjud, she had just recently started doing so). Women in Salma's age know very well it is good to be cautious regarding their children's habits. She instantly finished her prayers by quickly turning her face to either side and stood up to see who it was it walking. She stood there quietly. Sadat was lucky Shabo did not open the door for him. Still while he was coming back, clenching his fists and pursing his lips to ease his anger, his mother turned the lights of the lawn on.
The emotional scars of the procedure did not heal with the physical wounds Shabo had sustained a few days ago and they persisted for weeks to come. She noticed that she was very irritable, very nervous, she would get startled with small things. She could not take the whole episode off her mind.
She did not know if she would tell Sadat about it when he is back. She felt it would be better to not tell anyone about her shame and let it die along with her. She isolated herself and started to eat less than normally. One of the other maids thought it was because she was in love with someone. Salma Durrani asked her several times if everything was ok, but she would not say anything about, how the hell could she?
Sadat came home on his vacations. He was very angry with Shabo, feeling that she had stopped thinking about her, he felt she was not attracted to him anymore, and that was most likely the reasons why she had never called him, and always put the phone down when she heard it was him on the phone.
The day he came he was very eager to dispel his anger at her, to ask her what kept her from talking to her and tell her how he had been frustrated over her indifferent attitude. But he could obviously not do it in front of everyone else. He was waiting for the night to approach, so that, like before, Shabo can slip into his room.
It was well past midnight and Sadat, although he was dead tired from the day's journey, was still not sleeping at all. He waited and waited for that feeble knock at his window which always signalled Shabo's arrival. When she did not come till 2 O' clock in the morning, he decided to go himself and wake her up. He was almost very angry and was not thinking of doing anything amorous to Shabo, he just wanted to give her his piece of mind. He came out of his room and slyly walked to Shabo's room which was completely separate from the rest of the building in the far end of the house near the lawn.
Sadat did not know that his mother was awake already, for her prayers (tahajjud, she had just recently started doing so). Women in Salma's age know very well it is good to be cautious regarding their children's habits. She instantly finished her prayers by quickly turning her face to either side and stood up to see who it was it walking. She stood there quietly. Sadat was lucky Shabo did not open the door for him. Still while he was coming back, clenching his fists and pursing his lips to ease his anger, his mother turned the lights of the lawn on.