When I meth her for the first time after many years away,I was shy. She smiled at me as I walked past her little house.
Well,well, how you’ve grown!’she said with her usual bold smile.
I sail something in reply and hurried away.In the rapid look I gave her,I saw the heaviness of
her body,and wondered if she was getting fat.There was something about her that seemed different.
I looked back back and saw her watching me.She had a look catlike happiness on her face that day.
‘Has shemet some man and married him?’ I wondered as I walked towards my parents’But soon enough I knew she was not married. The village now felt sorry for her-she was a woman growing old before her time .The men did not come to her for their pleasures as much as before.
The village was moving into the modern world-just two miles away there was now acinema’and after the late-night showing there were women available there too.