The Importance of Love

Mira's resistance to Ravi was crumbling. She felt contempt for him, how would she let this man waste her life? For the next two days they fought,. he called her fat and uptight, she taunted him for not having got her pregnant. Mira found herself shouting: I just cleaned all those dishes He glanced sideways at her from over the cracked spider sink, eyes bulging as he coughed some more Just do it on the side, I'm sick Mira, move Mirella thought with a horrified smile; Am I too, just a creature of power?"