The maid asks the ring man if he's still looking for the woman who ran away with the money. The ring man says no, but the maid says she's been looking for her since the beginning of the novel. The maid then asks the young master if there's any need to condemn the young man for what he did. The young master says he'd be nothing if it weren't for Soo Hyun's kindness. The old woman asks the maid if she'd like to hear her story. She says she wanted to handle things secretly from the two of them, but now she doesn't think she needs to hide it, so she wants to tell the story of the old woman. She tells the maid that if she hadn't been able to save Soo Hyun thanks to her, everything would have been different. She was a slave after her master died, and she worked for the son of his father, who didn't have much intention of learning. She learned a lot of things from him, including Chinese, for him, if she could have convinced Sihoon to do the right thing at the time. She asks the men to accept the money for the "atonement" of the woman. If the men accept, they can pay her mother's medical bills and tuition.