Part 4, Another Woman, Section 2, p. 187 - 212 Summary

Mom visits an elderly man entering a hospital who angrily resists every time a doctor asks for his name and, at one point, gives Mom's name. This leads Mom to recollect how she met the man - as he was passing on his bicycle, he offered to help her carry a heavy load of flour and leave it for her up ahead, but took to his own house instead. When the frantic Mom found both the bowl and the man, she discovered the man's wife was having a baby and helped her give birth, afterwards making food for the starving family. Mom describes how she later returned and discovered that the wife had died, how Mom breastfeed the baby, and how afterwards, she and the man became good friends. She describes how he...