Ruby more than an hour away. Mrs. Bamjee got up herself, struggled into Jimmy's raincoat which was hanging not wake up, for his return to consciousness was always set in his mind to half past four, and that was When the Special Branch knocked steadily on the door in the small hours of Thursday morning, he did over a chair, and went to the front door. The clock on the wall- a wedding present when she married Pahad - showed three o' clock when she snapped on the light, and she knew at once who it was on the other side of the door. Although she was catch on the wire buglar-proofing. And then she opened the door and they were there- two coloured not surprised , her hands shook like a very old person's as she undid the locks and the complicated policemen in plain clothes. "Zanip Bamjee?" "Yes." As they talked Bamjee woke up in the sudden terror of having overslept. Then he became conscious of men's voices. He heaved himself out of bed in the dark and went to the window , which, like the front door , was covered with heavy mesh of thick wire against intruders from the dingy lane it looked upon. Bewildered , he appeared in the room, where the policemen were searching through a soapbox of papers beside the duplicating machine. "Yusuf, for me," Mrs. Bamjee said. At once, the snap of a trap, realization came, it's stood there in an old shirt before the two policemen, and the woman was going off to prison ceme. He stoo natives. "There you are! he shouted, standing thway from her. "That's what you've got for it. Didn't I tell you? Didn't I? That's the end of it now. That's the finish. That's what it's come to." She listened with her head at the slightest tilt to one side, as if to ward off a blow, or in compassion. 1.1.1 What is the Special Branch? 1.1.2 Refer to lines 2-3 ("his return to consciousness...half past four") (1) What do these lines suggest about Mr Bamjee's attitude towards his family? 1.1.3 Write down TWO examples from the text that confirms the Bamjees are not (2) rich. (2) 1.1.4 What was Mrs Bamjee's reaction to her arrest? (1) 1.1.5 Refer to lines 7-8 ("Although she was...the wire buglar-proofing") 1
