"Barrister Babu..." Vandita called out softly as she peeped into the study room. The silence of the night was too overbearing for her low voice. Also, she was careful not to wake up Koeli or raise an alarm unnecessarily.
"Barrister Babu... You in there?" Vandita called out again, a little louder this time, as she pushed the door open.
She ran her eyes across the darkness as her voice reverberated in the empty room.
Vandita furrowed her eyebrows as she closed the door back.
"Why would he even say such a thing!... A VILE woman, it's very unlike him to use such a word!" The thought rang in her mind.
She stood there for a minute, thinking, before she finally started to walk back up to the stairs.
'Where did he go?' Vandita thought.
