Only Tolba believes it possible and suggests that the motive is a hidden love of Zohra — Naguib Mahfouz

His body was foiund on the road to the Palma.'

A few days had brought us nearer to one another. The sense of companionship had gotten the better of the old political differences as well as the deeply rooted aversion of two opposed temperaments, though occasionally the buried differences would drift up to the surface, reawakening an ugly antagonism"

Miramar - Summary & Analysis