- Two townswomen, Fausta and Angeles, talk about the light that is coming off and on at the Media Luna.
- They know that it's Pedro Páramo's wife's bedroom, and think that she must be dead because the light had stayed on every night for three years, since Susana was crazy-afraid of the dark.
- The women see a man walking and wonder whether he is Doctor Valencia.
- They talk about whether Susana might die without having confessed, and think that if she dies all the work they did decorating the church for Christmas will be ruined, because they will have to take it down for the funeral.
- The two women go home and the village goes quiet.