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.....nafisi sagib asked zalikha begum to forgive and forget the incident that was troubling her for years , she was being stubborn  , she explained she could forget it only when she is dead not before that,  he left  her and she  began  scratching the  dust from the  past  incident  if  cleared and brought up  the whole family would  become a laughingstock,  whole episode  was memorised  by heart  by every one