Jimmy and Girlie had gone to Mohammed Ebrahim, the lawyer, and when he found out that their mother
had been taken-when she was arrested, at least to a prison in the next town, they had stood about
outside the big prison door for hours while they waited to be told where she had been moved from there.
At last they had discovered that she was fifty miles away, in Pretoria. Jimmy asked Bamjee for five
shillings to help Girlie pay the train fare to Pretoria, once she had been interviewed by the police and had
been given a permit to visit her mother he put three two-shilling pieces on the table for Jimmy to pick up.
and the boy, looking at him keenly, did not know whether the extra shilling meant anything, or whether it
was merely that Bamjee had no change.
Based on the information in the passage, which statements accurately describe Jimmy?