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प्रश्न
Examine the communication channels in the story between Paul and his mother.
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उत्तर
Paul and her mother shared the most intimate conversation through the eyes. Though they were not actually love bound to each other as in the first paragraph, the author says that it was the children and the mother alone who knew that there was no love in their relation, they knew it because they read in each other's eyes.
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