Describe the murder of Mary in The Grass Is Singing The Grass Is Singing is a novel written by British author Doris Lessing - and published in An intimate and illicit relationship grows between Moses and Mary One day Tony catches Moses helping Mary to get dressed and is stunned by the possibility that they are having an affair He decides to tell Dick to fire Moses but Moses leaves that evening and does not return Two nights before Dick and Mary are due to leave the farm Mary wakes up suddenly She walks around the house in paranoid deception swinging wildly between different emotional states She looks for Moses convinced he will finish her that night Mary is supposed to spend the next day packing but accidentally falls asleep and wakes up in the late afternoon She suddenly feels forced to go to the store and finds Moses there