from previous--

for  bashri  second  marriage  was  a never  to  be  thing, after  adil was  gone  from his  life  nobody  else  could  take  his  place  when her  mother  zakya  beghum suggested she  and  the  little  girl  both  needed  security  and  one  proposal  from the  widower   tariq  was   there  she  should  quickly  accept  it, after  all its  not  grief  that  was  stopping  her  it  was  her  fear  of  losing  it  all again