you can really see naima seething with jealousy. so an old friend of wahab is in town and naima reminscenes about how they were couple friends -- but now that mrs is dead and she is unwell. you can tell that she wants to meet this friend and thinks wahab will take her but he instead takes zainab and tells naima to take care of herself.
basically naima has shot herself in the foot -- she plays the sick card too well that she does not get taken out by wahab to socialize. at the same time, the sick card works to keep wahab tied to her out of pity and guilt.
assuming the story is logical -- she was sick but actually did get better enough to do things with a helper. however, she enjoyed using the sick card to keep the men tied to her like little puppets....
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