Chapter 23

Therefore, the whole region depended predominantly on agricultural activities and it would be a choice of a fool to seek inhabitation nearby such a barren land. Benjamin drove a little farther from the exit from the fields to reach a place where there were big rock lying on the ground on to which a person could sit to take some rest, usually someone who would have come all the way from the fields.

He stopped the car nearby the stones. He came out of the car followed by Cindy. Martha preferred to stay where she was seated until Cindy said, “Come outside Martha, you will feel better and after sometime we will resume our journey.” Martha did as her mother told her to do so.

She was not out of her senses. She now acted in adherence to only one principle, ‘Do as mother say’ and hence she acted accordingly. Somewhere in her heart, she knew something is just not right at all.

But she had lost the valor t