The girls go to a store to buy some new clothes, and the narrator tells us that they're there to shop for each other's things. The narrator says that her mother always taught her not to trust anyone based on their appearance, and that she's not sure what her sister is thinking about. She tells the girls that they have to remind each other not to make up stories about what happened to them when they were sleeping with the thieves. The girls say that they don't have to tolerate the thieves, because they attacked them pur posely.