Chapter 96

I Can Take Life for Your Sake

Eva stared at Kate with keen absolute interest while she had her flakes. The antecedent to their staying together in a room was one factor Eva never considered to be a reality – staying in a room with the same gender had never happened before in her life. Oh yes, she could recall vividly about her admirers that visited; they never made it to her bedroom. Their limit was the sitting room with scarcely any kiss exchanged, even locking of fingers and sexual advances were reserved for other times – all these were put under control by her mother, who never in the right sense of it abhorred her sexual abnormality. On the other hand, Eva never welcomed the men that visited her mother on end. She was of the habit of questioning her mother whenever she barged in on them in the sitting room:

“Mom, I hope he isn’t spending the night.” She would ask. And when her mother assured her with a wink and a nod, she would say yet further. “Mom, anything he tell