She felt no pain at his parting, and satisfied herself that her interest in him had been a momentary, passing attraction. But she kept wondering at the secret of his reversal, until his name came up between her and her companion.
Sana said: I don't think he deserves your interest. Better not to think of him.
— I am not sorry to have lost him. But do you know the reason for his sudden departure?
— Do you remember that walk of ours? I saw him glare at you when you kept company with his friend... what is his name? Nasri... And he was talking to me with his lips pinched with vexation and fury.
— I noticed none of that; I was far off.
— But I was at his side, and I understood that he expected you to keep to him and to no one else — and that he nearly went mad at your walking with the other young man.
— That is, he means to capture me and have me to himself before he asks for my hand or declares his love to me? He wants me to anticipate his wishes and refrain from looking at anyone else... all this when there is no pledge and no word between us? What would it be if there were...
— Jealousy is eating him alive.
— And I who kept saying to myself: everything around us breathes none but beautiful thoughts...
— I was certain of it when I noticed how his countenance changed.
— There is no other explanation for his about-face.
— He is gone, and no one mourns him.
— Off to wherever...
And the two girls fell silent, as Sana set her knitting needles moving with her accustomed nimbleness, and Zahra sank into the reading of a new book.
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