The narrator and his brother go to visit Mariane. Mariane tells the narrator that she still keeps her doll, which she made when she was a child. The narrator asks Mariane if she still has the doll, and Mariane says that she does. She tells Mariane that she has a feeling that she needs to give the doll to someone, and she asks if there is anything she can do to help. She asks if she can buy some food for Mariane as an apology for the loss of her sister and for the poverty she experienced when her parents died