Chapters 10, 11 and 12 Summary

The next morning Maria feels an amazing calm and contentment about the previous night and tries to determine whether she should buy a plane ticket back to Brazil or stay a while longer in Geneva. Maria does not want to return home and be ridiculed for being a failure, even though she does not know how she will support herself if she stays. Maria remembers one of the girls at Roger's club mentioning somewhere called Rue de Berne, where girls in entertainment can earn money.

When the modeling agency calls Maria to ask details of the upcoming fashion show, Maria realizes that the agency knows nothing about the Arab's true intentions. Maria determines that men will pay money for sex but what they are really paying for is happiness, and Maria lets circumstances decide her fate.

Maria goes to the library...