The Catch

The American neighbour, a mighty gossip before the Lord, says the reason the owner moved out to the swamps beyond the airport is that she has cancer. She does look frail and always wears a sun hat, and I can't for the moment remember her hair, or whether she has any. He says she seemed a lot worse seven years ago. Still, it is a worry. Then again she has no children and I expect the house would go to her younger sister, who's an almost equally fey and pointedly helpless person, plus she's been trying to sell the house for years whenever she had no tenants, and the building five doors down has also been unsuccessfully for sale for a long time, so I don't expect to be kicked out immediately even if she gets sick again, which inshallah she won't.