लेकिन भगवान निश्चित रूप से उसे दंडित करेंगे, एमएमए, फिर यह तय किया था कि यह उस तरह की चीज नहीं थी जो लोगों ने किसी भी अधिक कहा, भले ही यह वही था जो वे सोच रहे थे। मुसीबत यह थी, उसने सोचा, कि भगवान के पास इन दिनों सजा देने के लिए इतने सारे लोग थे कि उन्हें वायलेट सिपाही से निपटने के लिए गोल होने का समय नहीं मिल सकता है। यह एक निराशाजनक विचार-एक खोया हुआ अवसर था, एक अर्थ में: वह बहुत स्वेच्छा से

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(But God will surely punish her, Mma, then had decided that this was not the sort of thing that people said any more, even if it was what they were thinking. The trouble was, she thought, that God had so many people to punish these days that he might just not find the time to get round to dealing with Violet Sephotho. It was a disappointing thought-a lost opportunity, in a sense: she would very willingly have volunteered her services to assist in divine punishment, perhaps through something she would call Mma Makutsi's League of Justice that would, strictly but fairly, punish people like Violet.)