The police questioned my mother about the girl, and she replied that Cassi had come to her door, but had left.

The next day the police questioned Tookaram, and he, too, gave a similar reply.
This was said the same night when the search was made for the girl.
After the offering was made to the sea, we partook of the cocoanut and returned home, when my mother gave me some food; but Tookaram did not partake of any food that night.

After dinner I and my mother slept inside the room, and Tookaram slept on a cot near his brother-in-law, Yessoo Mahadhoo, just outside the door.

That was not the usual place where Tookaram slept.

He usually slept inside the room.