Chapter 15, Family Planning Summary

The tailors pulled their trunk of the train and onto the station, and Ashraf Chacha ran up to them, surprising them because they were supposed to have met at the shop, but Ashraf said the shop was not that busy. Ashraf commented that it looked as if the city had been good to them, and how Om looked so healthy. Om answered that it was because he no longer had the worm in him; Ahsraf agreed; health was the most important thing. The tailors slowed down at the rooming house, but Ashraf steered them towards his shop saying that they should stay with him - he had been so lonely since Mumtaz had died. This was the first that the tailors had heard of her death and were shocked at the news. Ashraf had written them a letter in...