The next morning, the two women are in the middle of the night, and the narrator tells us that he's not done with his story yet. He's still angry that he and Sha'am were the ones who took over the family. He says he'll fight back. The two women enter the room, and he asks if she's awake. She doesn't answer, but the narrator says she'll go down to the bathroom after washing up. He tells her that he feels like his body has been "assembled again" . He asks her to wait for him in the hallway so that the makeup artists can get a look at him. The narrator says he wants to see his mother, but she hasn't left her room yet. She asks him to come in and look at her face. She's changed a lot, she says, and now she feels like her enemy is looking at her like a "tick tick tick searching tick off my body." The narrator tells his mother that she always told her that there was always hope when someone was alive, and that she should sing and encourage herself when they're sad. She says she knows the person who stole everything from her, but that she could never take revenge for him. She tells her mother to ask her for help if she wants to get revenge. She also tells her to stop joking around with the two sisters, and she says that she'd be a better wife for him than her mother. She wants to go back to the wedding, but her mother says she needs to go to the Civil Administration Office to divorce her. She then asks the narrator to go home and discuss the matter with her.