This chapter's epigraph comes from a line from the play's first chapter, which begins, "I want you to put it in . . ba dump . She gets full marks ." This is a reference to the fact that haru, the maid, is the only person in the play who knows how to dump a body into a well. The scene opens with haru's maid, quiver, trying to teach her how to put a body in a well, but she's not having it. She's worried that if she puts the body in the well, she'll get "full marks" on her knees. She begs her maid to put the body into the well so that she can learn how to do it, but he refuses, saying that he doesn't want to hurt her. He tells her that he's just trying to help her, and that she shouldn't worry about it. He says that he wants her to be able