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-rahel  was  ready  to  leave  , dressed  up  for  the  occasion but  he  could not  find  his  reading  glasses, he  asked  shamsa  bua  if  she  had  found  them, but  shmsa  bua  was  a  responsible  woman  and  got  all the  cleaning  and  arrangements  done  in her  presence  if  she  had  located  something  missing  or  not  in its  right  place  she  would  have  brought  it  to  everyone"s  notice, was  it  possible  rahel  had   taken his  glasses  out  of  the  house  somewhere  and  misplaced  them , oh , right, in the  morning  he  recalled  he  had   taken his  glasses  along  with  the  newspaper  to  the  lawn  and  lost  them there