Servant-Maid

-Prabhu Shankar
Wardu’s wife was very rude and harsh.
After the closure of the company, her husband was almost under house arrest at his own home. She was uncomfortable that the twenty-year old servant-maid, Panatha was always looking towards her husband!
Wardu was also a faithful husband. He could not make out what the servant-maid was trying to do.  She was married only four month back. Now what were her intentions?
‘Look! Panatha is coming. She knows that my wife has gone to bank. She has come quite earlier today! ‘O God! Save me!’, he prayed in his heart.
‘Sir! Is Amma not at home?’ she entered with this question.
‘No...She is not.....here....’, Wardu was confused.
‘It’s good! Otherwise, she’d get angry.’ She untied a knot in the hem of her sari and took out a piece of paper.
‘This is the address of a company. My husband is working here as a driver. You apply here. My husband will talk to the Manager. You’ll get the job. You feel uncomfortable lying at home, don’t you?’
‘Panatha! That is........’.
‘See. Don’t tell it to Amma. She’d see her prestige. Now, let me go.’
She had walked away but entered his heart with all dignity.