It's a calm evening, and the narrator sees the blind man for the very first time. The narrator asks the man if he has a way to see the old woman. The man says he doesn't have a way out, because he's helping the orphans. He wants to know why they're helping him, and he asks the narrator to tell him more about the place. He says the place is a "reenactment of the past" and that everything that happened in the past was "from the past." The narrator says the past is not real, but it's also not as fake as the puppets make it out to be. They'll have to find someone else to take them out, the narrator says. He's happy, he says, because everyone's willing to believe him. He tells the narrator that he still has a day before the wedding, and that he'd like to be with her forever. He promises to follow her wishes and complete what she asked of him. She says she'll apologize later, but she can't stop him from using force on her. She's afraid that the man's life could be at stake if they don't get out of there.