Eno is in the sitting room and is thinking about her predicaments. A knock on the door.
[Eno is in the sitting room and is thinking about her predicaments. A knock on the door]
Eno - Who could this be? Please come right in, the door is open.
Oh!, it’s you Mary, long time no see. How body?
Mary - I dey manage am oh!.
Eno - Abeg sit down for chair make we talk. Where have you been?
Mary - I travel go village.
Eno - How is everybody there? I hope you bring something for me?
Mary - Everybody is fine. Abeg my friend, if you want something, make you come house.
Eno, from the look on your face, it seems something is really wrong. What is the matter?
Eno - My friend, I am undergoing one of the most difficult times in my life. I pray I survive it. My father and mother-in-law will never allow me to have peace in my matrimonial home. They see me as a person who can never give them grandchildren. They have even told me to go look for another husband and live their son alone. There is no name I have not answered in this house.
Mary - Look, my friend, you are the fault. I have told you time without numbers to come with me to a herbalist in our village who can give you a child. But your reply is always, “I am not interested”.
I tell you to wait till your parents-in-law sent you parking and marry another wife for their son, then you will understand that “husband is a scarce commodity these days”.
Eno - My friend, I do not expect this from you again. Look, I have made up my mind to wait for God’s time.
Mary - Wait! Go on waiting until you are 70 years then the reality will hit you like an atomic bomb.
Eno - God forbid.
Mary - Me, I don finish my own and I want begin dey go home O!.
Eno - Make I escort you reach outside. I dey tire since I return from work.
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