Many say their most painful moments are saying good-bye to those they love. After watching Cheryl, my daughter-in-law, through the six long months her mother suffered towards death, I think the most painful moments can be in the waiting to say good-bye.

　　Cheryl made the two-hour trip over and over to be with her mother. They spent the long afternoons praying, soothing, comforting, and retelling their shared memories.

　　As her mother‘s pain intensified and more medication was needed to ease her into sedation, Cheryl sat for hours of silent vigil by her mother‘s bed.

　　    Yusef settled himself into the Morris, easing a large thigh against the brakes.

     ‘Your boy had better come in at the back.’

     ‘Let him stay here,’ Yusef said. ‘He will mend the car if he knows it is the only way he can get to bed.’ He folded his large fat hands over his knee and said, ‘You have a very fine car, Major Scobie. You must have paid four hundred pounds for if

     ‘One hundred and fifty,’ Scobie said.

     ‘I would pay you four hundred.’

     ‘It isn’t for sale, Yusef. Where would I get another?’

     ‘Not now, but maybe when you leave.’

     ‘I’m not leaving.’

     ‘Oh, I had heard that you were resigning, Major Scobie.’

     ‘No.’

     ‘We shopkeepers hear so much - but all of it is unreliable gossip.’

     ‘How’s Business?’

     ‘Oh, not bad. Not good.’

     ‘What I hear is that you’ve made several fortunes since the war. Unreliable gossip of course.’

     ‘Well, Major Scobie. you know how it is. My store in Sharp Town, that does fine because I am there to keep an eye on it. My store in Macaulay Street - that does not bad because my sister is there. But my store? in Durban Street and Bond Street they do badly. I am cheated all the time. Like all my country-men, I cannot read or write, and everyone cheats me.’

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