Paul’s parents went to the market, but his aunt Diana said she had a headache and stayed home. She put on her hat, and went to read in her rocker in the garden. Paul joined her in the rocker. He slipped his hand under her colorful skirt. Diana kept reading.

Ralph often went hunting, but he never returned with any catch. His wife thought it strange that he always took a spyglass with him, but she said nothing. When Ralph’s son was old enough, his father took him hunting too, to the hill by the lake in which women bathed.

Two weeks after her divorce, Viola called her husband Laurent from a friend's phone. 'Yes?' he answered. In the background Viola heard loud music and young women giggle. She hung the phone and wept. Putting down his receiver, Laurent stopped the audio recording, and his empty bathroom became again silent.