The Words Harish Taught Me
- Late at night—in the very early morning—the police come.
- Anita grabs Lakshmi to go to their hiding place, but Lakshmi waits. She hears a man saying that he's here for a girl, and she hears Mumtaz lie and say there are no young girls there.
- When Lakshmi realizes the voice belongs to the third American, the one who said he would come for her, she tells Anita that he is a good man, that she's going to go with him. But Anita thinks it's a trick.
- Lakshmi is paralyzed—she can't leave but she can't stay. Anita tries one last time to get Lakshmi into the closet, but Lakshmi refuses.
- Slowly Lakshmi moves to the stairs, hearing the American calling for her, but she finds she can't say anything.
- Once she hears sounds that the American is leaving, something changes and Lakshmi runs downstairs to him.
- She sees Mumtaz, two policemen holding her back. She sees the American. She sees an American lady from the American's pictures.
- And she says her name, where she is, and how old she is: fourteen.