The Woman in Black
In the searing desert heat and cloying humidity of a July day in Jeddah, Princess Amaal refused to walk the few steps to the waiting, air-conditioned Lexus. Instead, she made her driver reverse into the triple garage, close the door and wait for her. When she deigned to appear, Younis, wearing a white thobe and ghutra, leapt out from behind the wheel and quickly opened the back door of the car and clicked it shut as soon as she was inside. She was covered from head to toe in black, apart from the gold braid, which trimmed her expensive abaya and hijab. The blacked-out windows prevented anybody from seeing inside the car.