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Updated: June 10, 2025
But Aggie says that a good many things in the Bible that she never understood are made plain to her if that is what they ate in Biblical times some of the things they saw in visions, and all that. She dropped asleep on Tish's lounge and distinctly saw Tufik murdering Hannah by forcing one of his cakes down her throat. The next month was one of real effort.
He would drop round in the evenings, when Hannah was out or in bed, and tell us what "magneto" was in Arabic, and how he would soon be able to care for Tish's car and would not take a cent for it, doing it at night when the taxicab was resting. At the end of six weeks we bought him a chauffeur's outfit. The next day the sister arrived and Tufik brought her to Aggie's, where we were waiting.
On her third cake, however, Aggie luckily turned blue round the mouth and had to go and lie down. This broke up the meal and probably saved my life, though my stomach has never been the same since. Tish says the cakes are probably all right in the Orient, where it is hot and the grease does not get a chance to solidify. She thinks that Tufik is probably a good cook in his own country.
We met at Tish's that night so that we might all go together to the train. Charlie Sands had agreed to see us off and to keep an eye on Tufik during our absence.
He was dazed when we bought him a steamer trunk and a rug, and disappeared again, returning in a few moments with a small paper bag full of gumdrops. We were quite touched. That, as I say, was on Tuesday. Tufik had been sleeping in Tish's guest-room since his desperate attempt at suicide, and we sent his things to Tish's apartment.
And he was not well he could not walk any distance at all and he coughed. At last Tish got Charlie Sands to take him to a lung specialist, a stupid person, who said it was a cigarette cough. This was absurd, as Tufik did not smoke. At last the time came for the Panama trip. Tish called me up the day she packed and asked me to come over. "I can't. I'm busy, Tish," I said.
When the poor boy was calmer we met in Tish's bedroom and Tish was quite firm on one point Hannah must leave! Now, this I must say in my own defense I was sorry for Tufik; and it is quite true I bought him a suit and winter flannels and a pair of yellow shoes he asked for yellow. He said he was homesick for a bit of sunshine, and our so somber garb made him heart-sad.
It had been carefully aimed as if with long practice. Tufik was apparently not surprised. He side-stepped it with a boredom as of many repetitions, and, picking up his suitcase, stood at a safe distance looking up. First, in his gentle voice he addressed the window in Arabic; then from a safer distance in English. "You ugly old she-wolf!" he said softly.
"One can drown in three feet of water," said Aggie sadly, "if one is very tired of life. People drown themselves in bathtubs." Tish's furious retort to this was lost, Tufik choosing that moment to appear in the doorway. He wore a purple-and-gold kimono that had given Tish bronchitis early in the winter, and he had twisted a bath towel round the waist. He looked very young, very sad, very Oriental.
"Oh, damn Tufik!" she said. Fortunately at that moment we blew out a tire and apparently Tish did not hear her. While I was jacking up the car and Tish was getting the key of the toolbox out of her stocking, Aggie sat sullenly in her place and watched us. "I suppose," she gibed, "a camel never blows out a tire!"
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