SEKAPE REVEALS SOME PECULIAR VIEWS SHE HAD TO DECIDE. She could tell Mma Sebina first that she had found her brother, or she could speak to the brother, to this Mr. Sekape, and reveal to him that he had a sister. The two possibilities raised quite distinct issues. Mma Sebina had asked her to find relatives for her; Mr. Sekape had not. So while it would be no shock to Mma Sebina if Mma Ramotswe came up with a brother, that might not be the case with Mr. Sekape. He would have got up that morning in the belief that he had no sister, and by the time he went to bed he would do so in the knowledge that he did have one. That would be a major change in his circumstances. And yet that, surely, was what life was like. There would inevitably be certain days when things changed dramatically—days when we received bad news or good, which could dictate the shape of the rest of our lives. That had happened to her on that day, that fateful day, when Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni had proposed to her, on the verandah of the house, as the sun went down.
