Chapter 12 Summary

A few days pass and the thugs send out a small party to the next ward in the rotation, demanding women. They stop by the doctor's wife's ward on the way and hurl insults and denigrating remarks about the women's sexual performance. When they learn that one of the women died from the prolonged sexual assault, they seem amused and note that the remaining women will simply have to work harder on their next rotation.

When the men recover the women from the next ward, they are pleased to discover there are fifteen women. As they drive the women down the hall, the doctor's wife takes the scissors from the wall and silently accompanies the women. At the thugs' ward, the previous scene of rape and debauchery is quickly repeated. The doctor's wife enters the thugs' ward and stands near the leader while...