She said yes. She wanted to pay for her tea but I refused. I held her hand and asked her to let me pay. Her hands were very soft and quite warm. She s...iled and accepted.Once the train started, people started dozing. The old man stretched himself below the berth inside. This created some space. So I requested the family woman to move a bit and spread my bed sheet so that I can also stretch my legs and sleep. But I was able to sleep with my head inside corridor and my legs stretching towards the. Trina and Josie were sitting in the dining room drinking coffee and talking as the two siblings came out.“We thought you might sleep all day,” said Trina.Alan only smiled as he went for a cup of coffee. Ashley disappeared into the bedroom she was given and she returned a short time later with her luggage. She didn’t stop; she just carried it back to the master suite. When she returned she had a smile on her face and asked if someone would get her a cup of coffee.“It looks like the two of you. But, at the same time I was with fear that if anyone would know that. I had that fear because my family had a good name in the whole village & I was the best student of that village. My father said me to go long the fields & look them as they were very beautiful with sugarcane crop. He said me to eat some as I liked it very much. So, I went along the fields & looked all over the fields. All the men in the fields were given holiday as it was festival that day. The field was very beautiful. I. She says you’re all very possessive by nature and want to own us. She says you have small cocks and don’t know the first thing about pleasing a woman, especially a black woman.’ These two sentences had been delivered causally, in Ardy’s quiet way. She watched me, waiting for a reply. The candle flickered, moving my shadow on the water’s surface, seeming to ripple. ‘Well, that sounds accurate. We are possessive and some of us have small cocks. I don’t know if I could please a black woman but.