“D’you know who Ariel was?” Baby Kochamma asked Sophie Mol. “Ariel in The Tempesti” Sophie Mol said she didn’t. “ ‘Where the bee sucks there suck I?” Baby Kochamma said. Sophie Mol said she didn’t. “ ‘In a cowslip’s bell I lie’?” Sophie Mol said she didn’t. “Shakespeare’s The Tempest?” Baby Kochamma persisted. All this was of course primarily to announce her credentials to Margaret Kochamma. To set herself apart from the Sweeper Class.
