She was ready to go home — home being, at present, the guest house in Kedarpur with the rooster next door. She was going to sleep for twelve hours. She was going to eat dinner first, something warm, and then she was going to sleep for twelve hours, and tomorrow she was going to go to the school and find out when it was opening and prepare her classroom and write the names of thirty-two students on her seating plan.
She already knew the names. She had written them in her notebook at seven forty-four AM and she had not forgotten a single one.— — —
