C H A P T E R 13
THE PESSIMIST AND THE OPTIMIST
Chacko had moved out of his room and would sleep in Pappachi’s
study so that Sophie Mol and Margaret Kochamma could have his
room. It was a small room, with a window that overlooked the
dwindling, somewhat neglected rubber plantation that Reverend E.
John Ipe had bought from a neighbor. One door connected it to the
main house and another (the separate entrance that Mammachi had
installed for Chacko to pursue his “Men’s Needs” discreetly) led
directly out onto the side mittam