‘No, Daddy, I’m not OK with this! I swear to you, in the name of God, the Almighty, I didn’t know. She told me she had a friend with her and I saw a figure in an abaya, so I left them to come in by themselves. I didn’t know it was a man under the abaya. On your life, Daddy! You mean everything to us!’
‘To top it off, she brings him in wearing a woman’s abaya! Something tells me this isn’t the first time she’s done this. You’re swearing on my life, on your love for me, but what’s life, what’s love? I never thought, never once imagined, that my dignity would come to mean so little that it could be thrown away like this.’
Lula had put her clothes back on. She approached Father, who was lying on the living room floor, and attempted to console him: ‘Daddy, you could never have expected it. Yo
