An Incident in the Ghobashi Household

In this story, a mother and a daughter are having a conversation in the morning before going off to market to sell grain. The father had gone away to a job and left the household in the hands of the mother. While the daughter is getting ready, the mother thinks of how sneaky she has been. The daughter has been pregnant with an illegitimate child for months, but has been hanging out a towel to dry as if she has been having her period still. The daughter kept it hidden because she didn't want to shame her father. In the end, as the daughter is about to go to the market, the mother stops her and gives her her life savings with which to take a flight away and find a husband (I think)