‘You will let us have it back, won’t you?’ pleaded Joyce Jowett as she reluctantly handed over a precious video, a record of the last holiday the Jowett’s had spent together, a cruise to the Caribbean. ‘Josie did so love Antigua’
‘Yes, of course, Mrs Jowett, you’ll get it back as soon as we can. Thank you,’ responded Shakira Amin.
‘I still don’t really understand why you need it, I mean in relation to …Josie’s…’ Joyce’s voice faltered, she could not bring herself to say, ‘Josie’s death’.
‘To be honest Mrs Jowett, neither do I, but you know how it is, I’m just the messenger, they instruct me to go there and I go there, don’t question why.’
‘Yes, I suppose so, in your case.’
Shakira decided not to take offence at the implied racial slur, that because she was Pakistani woman, going here
