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......ammi, s idea  was correct,   she took her time,  Annie didn't let her go without having lunch,  for tge sake of her daughter  phuphu aunty was also   acting a perfect hostess,  after so much  insistence it was not n8ce to get up and leave,  ,manna  became extremely annoyed on seeing  the closed door, , she asked her aunty for tge keys to tge locked door  but aunty sweetly  rebuked her sending her away to wash her hands and freshen up  before sitting down to eat, she was to recite in the empty  house,   her nanner brought a smile on nanna,s  face, when she returned freshened up aunty was  frying parathas on the  pan,  looking at her she  explained  she gad  cooked ladyfingers on  zaya,s  demand  and now sge remembered  nanna didn't eat ladyfingers, so she  made kebab fry and paratha for her