When he died he had set up an annuity for her in the same amount that the lease fee was. That was what she had been living on all of these years. The only trouble was the yearly amount she received sixty years ago didn't buy much today. "He was a good man and maybe I should have married him. Still we had a long and satisfactory friendship and I think well of him."Billy Bob questioned me as to why I was paying so much attention to Miss Maudie. I said I might be interested in buying her cabin. Then Kate spoke up and said that she always felt guilty about running from the old lady years ago, so was trying to make up with her. "Wait until you see her in the new dress I bought for her. I even gave her a bath. That was a chore. We thought that she was dirty because she wanted to be. The thing is, she isn't strong enough to get water, put it on the stove to heat and then fill the tub. Then she had to empty the tub. It just is beyond her capabilities."Billy Bob was defensive. "I have done. She didn't speak Egyptian dialect like Father or play chess like Nahar. But she could spoon-feed him shorba (soup), hold a cup of tea to his lips, and read to him from Father's small library—poetry, romantic and historical epics, even a few children's books. He would listen, a smile on his face, and she would take care to animate her voice so that he would be transported to the worlds she wanted to share with him, even if he had no idea what she was saying. It was the least she could do. The best she could do.Today, however, she had made a bigger effort."Tell me more of you," she said in painstaking Masri (Egyptian dialect). "Do you have brother or sister?" I have one brother," he answered, speaking very slowly. "Ismail. We're twins. He looks just like me." With a note of pride, he added, "I'm ten minutes older." You miss?"He broke their gaze. "Yeah."Masha-il had felt an ache around her heart. Did this brother know where he was? Did he know, she found herself wondering, that.
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