Lola is warned by others to keep close to Mr. Shaw after she bit Jacob, a man she’s involved with, because no one else gets away with harming him. She overhears them mock her reliance on his financial support. Alone, she reflects on the unbridgeable gap between them and her imminent departure. When Jacob returns home unusually early, she is confronted by an unfamiliar person who questions if she is the woman Jacob secretly keeps at the Westbridge residence.