- Dona Eduviges welcomes the narrator into her home, and starts talking about how she was a good friend of his mother, Dolores.
- In fact, she weirdly claims that Dolores told her that her son would be arriving… even though Dolores has been dead for a week. Um, creepy.
- Dona Eduviges also says that she and Dolores had promised that they would die together, even though the narrator had never heard his mother talk about this strange woman.
- She then makes a pretty crazy claim, which is that she should have been the narrator's mother, not Dolores. Cuckoo.
- Even if she's nuts, the narrator is tired, so he goes ahead and takes Eduviges' spare room.