"You said the heating was my responsibility," he said. "I heated enough for two."
She looked at the bowl and then at him and then she picked up her spoon and ate the dal, which was very good because Faiza's assistant who had brought it had an excellent family recipe, and across the table he ate his own bowl and they were quiet in the specific way of two people who were not performing not talking but were simply eating, and outside it was raining in the specific monsoon way of a city that was also trying to decide what to do with itself, and the election was twelve days away.
