Believing
- The American tells Lakshmi that Mumtaz can't force her to be with men, but Lakshmi thinks he doesn't know about the beatings, or the goondas, or the locks.
- Still the American says that he will come back for Lakshmi.
- Yet Lakshmi doesn't know what to believe, because she believed Auntie Bimla and Uncle Husband and that the money she made was going to her family—and these all turned out to be lies. She is afraid of believing.
- She closes her eyes, and when she opens them, the American is still there. Lakshmi decides that she wants to go to the clean place.