“Phuti left her in the living room for a few minutes while he went to fetch her a cup of tea. She sat…”

“Phuti left her in the living room for a few minutes while he went to fetch her a cup of tea. She sat there and closed her eyes. It was not going to be an easy conversation with Mma Makutsi, but it was a necessary one. Mma Ramotswe did not believe in allowing anything to fester: if there was an issue with somebody, then it was always better to bring it out into the open. Doing that was like looking at something outside, under the open sky, for things looked less frightening in the sunlight.”

Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

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