“You are a good person,” Emma said, looking up at him as they entered the hall back. Mukhtar wondered what made the boy say so and he was about to ask when the boy spotted someone in the crowd and shouted, “Auntie Esther.”

Esther quickly came over when she saw Emma with a stranger. “Emma, what happened? Good afternoon, sir,” she said to Mukhtar while giving him a wary look.

“Oh, afternoon, we had...”

“I bumped into him, and he lifted me. Now we want to go and...” Emma looked at Mukhtar for the completion of the sentence, as he seemed to have forgotten how Mukhtar phrased it.

“To dress...