The cab delivers Charles and the prostitute to her flat, and Charles follows her upstairs to a very sparsely furnished dark room. Noise from a second room indicates a sleeping child, and the prostitute looks in to comfort the girl before returning to Charles in front of the fire. The prostitute sends an errand boy for some wine and changes into a revealing peignoir.
Charles drinks the cheap wine, and the prostitute begins to entice him by sitting on his lap. Charles begins to feel waves of nausea and finds the bed to lie down. The nausea returns with a vengeance. When Charles finds that the prostitute's name is Sarah, he vomits into his pillow.
Sarah, the prostitute, tries to comfort Charles, as he continues to vomit. She hails a cab.....
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