Three years later, the narrator also experiences marital problems as Modou starts to show too much interest in their daughter's friend, Binetou.
Daba, the narrator's daughter, confided to her mother that Binetou had a very generous sugar daddy, whose identity she didn't reveal, and that under her mother's pressure Binetou was going to marry him.
It is only in the evening of the wedding that the narrator is informed by the Imam and Modou's brother that her husband has married again. Mawdo Bw is also present. As Tamsir, Modou's brother, tells the narrator that Modou thanks her for all the years she has given him and that as a first wife she is now Modou's mother and friend, the narrator reflects on her mother's instinct. She had thought him too good to be honest, and.....
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