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Shabnam sits alone in the playground, holding her stomach. In No.29B, Carmel looks round the finished nursery, fighting back tears. At the Masoods’, Kush, Tamwar and Masood are worried by Shabnam’s absence; she returns and calmly sets about booking a taxi to the hospital. Masood offers to drive but Shabnam doesn’t want anyone to come. Tamwar claims Zainab’s had ‘problems’ in Pakistan and isn’t coming.