How could Ali take her from this house where the daughter is...

How could Ali take her from this house where the daughter is so attached to her father, to the extent that they cannot be separated? Ask Muhammad for her hand in marriage? Ali shares the same feelings as Fatima does. Suddenly the picture changes. Aiesha comes into the house of the Prophet. The Prophet, for the first and last time in his life, takes a young, alive, desiring girl as his wife.

Fatima, little by little, senses that her father's young bride will replace Khadijah and hers; if not in his heart but undoubtedly in his house. Ali also senses that the moment which…