CHAPTER 13
The next day, the meeting re-convened once again. The village square was filled. The spokesman selected five men to join him for consultation. They moved some distance away from the venue of the meeting. After their consultation, the spokesman and the five men that went for the consultation joined the main meeting. It is now the place of the spokesman to brief the meeting with the resolution they reached during the consultation. He told Nancy that the kinsmen have been very magnanimous and decided to handle the matter with a human face.
‘However, this should not be construed by you (pointing to Nancy) as a sign of indecisiveness on our part, your in-laws. You have a time line of two months and if within the next two months you do not come back to the village to inform us
