The Amme did not stop her cutting. She said calmly, ‘she’s getting dressed to go out. She wants you to change and go with her. To buy new shoes for school.’
The boy sighed. He picked up a piece of sugarcane and began to suck it noisily. That was really too bad! Did she really think he’d go out with her, walk in the street where all his friends would see him? True, his father had said she wanted. Why, he wouldn’t ho with her for anything – not even if she offered him a bicycle.