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on the evening when khalda was in the kitchen and noorjahan beghum watched her favourite television show , kaniza came to sit down by her side, few minutes later the daughter felt , her mother was staring vacantly at the television but not really seeing it, she asked her the reason, prompt came her reply she was worried because her son khawer was showing interest in the unwanted uninvited guest--khalda, he had asked to keep a maid for cleaning and mopping , the work which khalda was doing, what if soon in near future he proposed to her, how could noorjahan beghum tolerate khalda to become her daughter in law, with her own son taking her side