Episode 20

The narrow river road at Kufi upon which the high foliage sprinkled drops of sunlight had been the widows' road, long before Vivian ever became a widow. This lonely road sloped right in front of the old St Andrew's church building, through a region of forest hammed with all palmtrees and the giant araba, straight into the village stream. Lianas twined round the trees along the road and raised their heads as they approached the top, like snakes about to strike.

The road, thenceforth, meandered through stony pavements and crooked laterite hedges and was slippery and lacerated with gulleys, during rainy season, as it got nearer it's destination....