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between us any more . . ." _Fucking idiot. The Devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon. In the middle of the bloody night! And if he hasn't guessed he's dying, that little deathbed speech will certainly have let him know_. Changez continued to shuffle along; his grip on his son's arm tightened very slightly. "That doesn't matter any more," he said. "It's forgotten, whatever it was."
In the morning, Nasreen and Kasturba arrived in clean saris, looking rested and complaining, "It was so terrible sleeping away from him that we didn't sleep one wink." They fell upon Changez, and so tender were their caresses that Salahuddin had the same sense of spying on a private moment that he'd of Mishal Sufyan. He left the room quietly while the three lovers embraced, kissed and wept.
Death, the great fact, wove its spell around the house on Scandal Point. Salahuddin surrendered to it like everyone else, even Changez, who, on
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