from jwari page 143--

it  was  three  past  mid night, when he  decided  he  must  reach  somehow  before  dawn  the  village  where  his  beloved  fatima  lived, was  she  really  ill  and  forgotten all her  past in amnesia   or  was  she  cursed  and  possessed, he  must  find  her  and  get   her  cured  so  she  could  recognize  him at  last