- Time goes all loopy, and the narrator seems to see the same night sky as the night before, and to be back with the mule driver, Abundio, who told him to look for Eduviges when he first got into town.
- Juan wakes up in bed with the naked woman. Donis, her brother, left, and she thinks he might never come back, since Juan is there now to take care of her.
- She tells him that the woman he saw the night before was her sister, coming to get some sheets she had traded her for food.