- In the morning, Sophie bathes and Atie takes care of Brigitte. When she returns to the house, Sophie feels that Brigitte might have a little fever.
- When Ifé goes to bathe, she leaves the bathhouse door open and Sophie can see her bathing rituals—and her naked body.
- Looking at the hump on her grandmother's back reminds her of the lumps her mother found in her breasts and had removed.