Having
regained the house by way of the back alley, Mrs. Tai Fu emerged
right upon them from out of the living apartments. Never had Ah
Kim seen his mother's eyes so blazing furious. She ignored Li Faa,
as she screamed at him:
"Now will I make you cry. As never before shall I beat you until
you do cry."
"Then let us go into the back rooms, honourable mother," Ah Kim
suggested. "We will close the windows and the doors, and there may
you beat me."
"No. Here shall you be beaten before all the world and this
shameless woman who would, with her own hand, take you by the ear
and call such sacrilege marriage! Stay, shameless woman."
"I am going to stay anyway," said Li Faa. She favoured the clerks
with a truculent stare. "And I'd like to see anything less than
the police put me out of here."
"You will never be my daughter-in-law," Mrs. Tai Fu snapped.
Li Faa nodded her head in agreement.
"But just the same," she added, "shall your son be my third
husband."
"You mean when I am dead?" the old mother screamed.
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