‘Don’t be inhuman, Ammalu. After all, Ammini is your friend my former colleague for thirty years. You could have given two dosas and sent her home happily’
‘I would have given her twenty dosas, not two. I would have, if necessary, gone to her house and delivered. But, she wants dosas to serve you, by her hand. That I can’t allow’
‘Why? What is wrong in that?’
‘If she serves, in order to encourage her serving, you will go on eating and tomorrow your blood sugar reading will sky-shoot’