Orina felt sure that there was some other reason, but she did not feel capable of arguing about it at this moment.
Instead she rose a little unsteadily to her feet and no one in the hut offered to help her.
Picking up her hat, which was beside her on the mattress, she put it on.
Her head seemed lighter and now she suspected that there had been something added to her cup of coffee.
It had made her sleep so quickly and so deeply and she thought that perhaps the men wanted her to rest.
They had thought that like most foreigners that she would refuse to obey what was the custom of the country.
‘I had better not accuse them of anything,’ she told herself, ‘but another time I will be more careful when I am offered – a cup of coffee.’
She walked somewhat slowly towards the door and then, t
