Pages 88-104 Summary

The narrator goes to the house of Mustafa Sa'eed the next afternoon to see the widow. The children, Mahmoud who is eight and Sa'eed who is seven talk with him. "They are my responsibility, and one of the reasons that brings me here each year is to see how they are getting on" (Chapter 6, pg. 88). They plan to have a circumcision ceremony for the boys, since the narrator is there on a visit. The boys leave and he is left to talk to the widow.

He asks her if she loved Mustafa and she said that he was good generous man and the father of her children. He was from Khartoum where he had had a business, she replied in response to his question. He tells her that he thinks Mustafa was hiding something but he doesn't know what. She tells...