“Oh?”
“She’s in love with the doctor, but that’s only because he was her childhood sweetheart. That means that they played with the same toys sometimes. She’s also in love with the other man. She might not know it, but she loves the second man more.”
Harpo’s fingers were tingling. Simon was a doctor. He’d figured something out. “Tell me more about the doctor,” he whispered.
“The sad woman’s mother makes her marry the other man,” said Blima, “because they pray together in the same temple. And the doctor married someone else too. Sometimes the sad woman pretends she’s sick so she can visit the doctor during the day. When they kiss in his office, her daughter hides in the cupboard even though there are boxes of needles in there. Sometimes they talk about dangerous things and the daughter g
