Chaos reigned all around us, and I, Mrs. Ghufran, the doctor, and the few who had not abandoned the Lady's School became outcasts in Wadi al-Nisaly. Everything suddenly collapsed, and the valley returned to what it had been years before, and even became worse than that. Instead of a third victory that we had hoped to achieve over the Ashraf Jartin on the last Yom Kippur, we were dealt the final blow.