Changes
- Mumtaz comes to Lakshmi's room and tells her that because she is no longer a virgin, she doesn't command a high price.
- Lakshmi asks if she can go.
- Mumtaz says that Lakshmi can go once she has paid off the twenty thousand rupees Mumtaz paid for her. Yet Lakshmi remembers that she was bought for ten thousand rupees, and she realizes that Mumtaz is lying to her.
- This lie is the thing that makes Lakshmi's eyes fill with tears for the first time since Habib.
- When Lakshmi tries to protest the lie, Mumtaz threatens her with the leather strap. So Lakshmi listens as Mumtaz explains that Lakshmi will join the other girls, share a bedroom, and have relative freedom in the house.
- Then Mumtaz threatens Lakshmi once more and tells her to go because she needs the room.