Two days after the ring incident, Maggie stood outside the staffroom, asking to speak to her, indicating that her presence was urgently needed. It was the luckless school gardener whom everybody called Ah Boy, for whose sick wife Maggie had months before collected a small class donation. Now it t...
That was four times altogether including the first sweeping in the morning by Sharifah. Mooi Lan went down on her knees and picked out, one by one, the stray strands of thread where these had become entangled in the soft tufts of carpet and could not be reached by broom or vacuum cleaner. The gir...