Rahim's mother is working late again tonight. She works late a lot of nights. He likes when she comes home to eat dinner with him, and he likes getting to talk to Frederick and Hamideh and aunt Dahab. Tonight, though, as dinner is being served, it's only Rahim and Ines and their papa. Frederick said that the next time he was home and didn't need to do anything else he might show Rahim how to catch a frog, and Frederick doesn't always do what he says ("he is not very reliable", is what his mama says), but Rahim wants to see him about it anyway.
"Will mama come home tonight?" asks Rahim.
He isn't thinking about it at all, but he uses the word Frederick uses for home, and not the one his papa uses or his mama uses.