‘But to get on with my story;’ he
said “I realized she was cheating on me”: he gave her enough money to live on.
He even paid her rent and gave her fifty a day for food.
“Three hundred Ringo for her room,
six hundred for going out and a pair of stockings now and again and all that
adds to more than a thousand.
‘That’s a few dollars.’ He said. ‘
And, needless to say, Madame didn`t work but she told me she couldn’t get by on
what I gave her. So I asked her: “Why not get a job, just part time?” That
would help me out because all those other little things add up. I bought you a
new outfit this month, I give you nearly twenty dollars a day, I pay your rent
and what do you do? You go to the café’ in the afternoon with all your friends
from Kalimantan. You offer them coffee and almond sugar cakes while I`m the one
giving you money. I`ve been good to you but you haven’t been good to me.’
’ But she didn’t go out to work, she
kept saying that she couldn’t and that’s when I realized she must be cheating
on me. ‘
Iskra then he told me how he`d found
a series of lottery tickets in her bag and how she couldn’t explain where she`d
got the money to buy them. A little later he`d found a pawn ticket she`d been
given as a receipt for two bracelets. Up until then, he didn’t even know she
owned any jewellery, not like that stuff anyway.
“That`s when I knew for sure she`d been
cheating on me. So I left her. But first, I hit her. Then I told her the truth
about herself. I told her that all she really wanted was to get laid and it
didn’t matter by whom. ‘
‘You understand, Rana Abdullah, I
said to her’: “You don`t see how jealous everyone is of how happy I’ve made
you. You`ll realize later on how happy you were with me.”
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