Maria asks, and as I agree, I look up. I do not know why, and I catch big eyes with curious expression peeping out of the window curtain. It's Mrs. Narayanan (Tamil brahmin, from the South of India), next-door neighbor watching me again today.
She hides as soon as our eyes meet.
I find it irritably funny "She is so funny, and this is the third time I have caught her peeping at me through the window curtain.
I wish, instead of peeping and foolishly hiding as soon as our eyes meet, she can give me a smile or wave at me like a good friend, but I think I cannot change people, and I have to accept people as they are.
Working or professional women in a foreign country is a curious site for these ambitious, not so confident middle-class housewives struggling at home with their boredom. It is interesting for them to observe what is different in working women they do not have."
We both walk inside slowly, and I continue to talk to Maria, pretending to ignore Mrs. Narayanan's spying stares. I look back and lift my head to see her, but she was not there or probably hiding carefully.

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