Chapter 5 Summary

In this chapter we learn that Frank's wife's name is Karen and that Frank was in the army at one time.

Frank relates an incident when he had come back to their room to find that Laurence had rearranged the furniture. Frank was not happy at this and reminded Laurence that he was just a temporary guest in his room and when the Santanders' left, Launce would be moving to their room. Laurence puts up some photographs, including his girlfriend Zanele, who he met in the Sudan while she was doing famine relief work. She is now in Lesotho and she and Laurence correspond weekly.

Laurence also has a photograph of his older sister who raised him because their parents were killed in a car accident when Laurence was only a baby. Frank, in turn, reveals that he lost his mother to leukemia...