Isn’t it better, when he returns, for your father to find himself with a legitimate son [rather] than an illegitimate grandson?

This quote is the last line of “An Incident in the Ghobashi Household.” Zeinat’s unmarried daughter, Ni’ma, has gotten pregnant. Zeinat’s husband is away for many months for work, so Zeinat will pretend that the baby is hers, rather than Ni’ma’s.