Jasmine's alienation

Her direct question hit him hard. Are you ambitious, Omar? His heart echoed back, and he disappeared into the corridors of his soul, searching for his ambition to measure how high it was.

When he came to his senses, he was calmer and more content. He said, with a strange sense of peace: “May I be like that!”

She said quietly:
- I'll give you a chance to prove yourself then!
Omar felt that the reins of decision had slipped from his hand at that moment, and were now in her hands... as if she was merging with the rusty key to her grandfather's house.