The next morning, the shop's owner complains to his wife about the lackluster performance of the play. She laments the fact that the vampire is no longer treated as a "second character" in the play; instead, he is now treated as the main character. The shop owner laments that he has lost his sense of "personal space" and that the man who was supposed to play the lead role has left for the day. He was "definitely lying" in bed the night before, she says, and she is sorry that he is gone. The owner complains about the dirty, old-fashioned clothes that his sister has worn all her life. She is ashamed of herself for wearing the clothes of a vampire. She says that she would rather be dead than be "humiliated like this"