Question

Tortured by doubt and remorse, he sat down in the glow of the charcoal sigri to wait

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The postmaster is tortured by doubt and remorse. He is remorseful over his past cruelty and insensitivity to Ali. He had behaved rudely with him in his painful time. He had insulted him by calling him 'pest'. He is waiting for a letter from his own ill daughter, who lived quite far away in a remote town.