Chapter 47

Then she continued her way upstairs and stopped at the beginning of the stairs until she ascended and became next to her. The floor had two corridors, one on the right, and it had only one room door and the other left, and it had two doors, one of them pink and the other dark black. In the corridor on the left, there were tables with vases of roses and hanging... On the walls are pictures of the family together in one picture, or individual pictures of each person individually. Afaf pointed in the direction of the door on the right and then said:

“There is the room of the officer and his wife. It is forbidden for you to enter it except when cleaning, and no one is in the house, that is, from eleven o’clock to one o’clock in the afternoon. In these rooms, the pink door is the girl’s room, who is eight years old, and the other room is for the young gentleman, who is twenty years old. Every day, at around seven in the morning, you will have to go up to the young master’s room and