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Detailed explanation-1: -Valli found the elderly woman quite repulsive. She saw that the woman had big ear holes and was wearing ugly earrings. Apart from this, she was chewing betel and her mouth was also filled with betel juice which was almost about to spill over her lips.

Detailed explanation-2: -Valli found the old woman, who sat beside her in the bus ‘absolutely repulsive’ because the woman was having big earholes, even also she was wearing big ugly earrings which Valli didn’t like at all. The woman was also chewing betel as her mouth was fully filled with betel juice.

Detailed explanation-3: -Valli found out that the bus journey to the town took 45 minutes and the two-way fare was 60 paise. She found out these details by listening carefully to the conversations between her neighbours and people who regularly used the bus and asked a few questions here and there.

Detailed explanation-4: -She was chewing betel nut and the betel juice was about to spill over her lips. So, Valli found her repulsive.

Detailed explanation-5: -The elderly woman who was sitting beside Valli in the bus looked absolutely repulsive to Valli. She had big holes in her ears and had ugly earrings in them. She did not relish the smell of the betel nut that she was chewing. She could not be social with such a woman.