The suitable match may be much older, uglier, and not earning enough, but as long as the girl stays within the 'security umbrella' of the family, it's considered okay. The day she married was a sad one. She didn't foresee her groom to be an illiterate farmer. While working in Lahore, she had come to learn of basics of language, math, and Arabic. Her owners, while taking pity on her, had taught her all this. She wanted to read more and go to a school.

As television was the only entertainment available to her, her image of a groom was of a film hero from India or Pakistan. This guy was thoroughly ugly and totally illiterate. On the eve of marriage, when her mother told her that a woman's place is in the shoes of her husband, she repulsed back the argument and told her she had read that in Islam, there is no such slavery, and moreover, she had observed decent behaviors by the husbands of her various house owners.

The argument was killed when her dad chipped in and told her to observe the traditional values and forget about her elementary books and learning the 'modern spiteful ways' of the city. She kept quiet because it's considered sinful for the girl to speak loud or start an argument about her in-laws especially. On the official marriage document (a nikah nama) her age was written as 18, as under the law it's prohibited to marry a girl under that age.

When she spoke yet again in front of the maulvi conducting the marriage, that is this not tantamount to lying which is so strictly considered a sin in her religion, she was reprimanded that it's a sin to object to the deeds of the elders and she has to survive in this society. She was thus married, but has left so many questions unanswered for this culture of cult and clan.