The next morning, the two men are on their way back to the hotel, and one of them asks the other if he can talk to the innkeepers for him. The other says he's been busy talking to the detectives, and that he'd like to talk to him about something. The first man says he doesn't want to apologize, and the second man asks the first man not to tell anyone what's going on, because he wants to be alone with the other man. The second man says that he hasn't slept well lately, and wants to know if the girl fell asleep while he was talking to her. The girl says she fell asleep and woke up, and they're on the way back from the hotel. The third man says the girl looks happy, though he thinks she's lost her memory. The two men talk about the girl's locker room, which they haven't seen together in a long time, and how easy it is to slip things up. They decide to invite the girl to a shopping trip, but the girl is too young to go shopping, so they won't invite her to the party. The man asks if they can talk about what happened in the girls' locker room while she was out, and when the girl says no, the man says they can't talk about it right now, because the girl has a story to tell them. She's the star of a popular soap opera, which is about a thirteen-year-old girl who's raped by a peddler in a sex scene. The story is not true, the narrator says, because it would be a fake story in a magazine, but it's true for the sake of the story. The narrator asks the girl why she doesn1t date the peddler, and she says that she doesn