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When her great aunts — that is to say, Lilia and Ghozala, not Doctor Fahmy — were asleep, Sam(a) crept out of bed. Sam(a) changed back from her nightgown into the single frock she owned and descended the stairs quietly from the bedroom to the sitting room downstairs.
Sam(a) had some difficulty seeing without turning on the lights, but the moon was full that night, and its light shone through the windows of the house on Flower Street. A large grandfather clock in the sitting room read that it was nearly 10:30 p.m. She was late. She crept through the dining room to the kitchen, and from the kitchen to a small back room with a door leading out into the garden. For a moment, she stopped in her tracks and looked at the brush at the right of the garden. She wondered if
