At the beginning of chapter 5, what does Kenny do for the first time

As Chapter five opens, it brings with it the one good thing the tannery brings into Rukmani’s life, the presence of her friend Kenny, the doctor who helped her conceive her five sons. Contracted as the doctor for the workers in the tannery, Kenny becomes an important friend to Rukmani and her family. After embarrassing him at their first meeting by calling him her lord and benefactor and kissing his feet, she invites him to her home and he quickly becomes a favorite friend of the whole family. Although he is not always able to disguise his disgust with the Indian way of life—such as using dung inside the house for many things, and bearing what he considers an excess of children, he begins helping the family when he can by bringing them milk or extra food.