- 4 - It was the day next to Christmas. As soon as Rani woke up in the morning and opened the outside door, she saw a blanket of fog spread all around. The fog was so dense that even the windows and doors of the houses opposite were not visible. The light of the street lamps was not even reaching the road it was confined to a circle of four to five feet around the lamp. There was complete silence all around. No sound even of a bird could be heard anywhere. It was six o’clock, still it was