Chapter 6 Summary

Flora approaches the hut and enters. She discovers that Miriam had her baby the day before and it is with her mother. At first Meriam refuses to wash the curtains, but Flora gives her a lecture on how to avoid getting pregnant again and offers her money to wash the curtains. Meriam reluctantly agrees. Meriam's mother, Mrs. Beetle, enters and surprises Flora with her civility. Meriam complains about having to wash the curtains but her mother says that they will be washed the next day and that she will hang them herself. Mrs. Beetle tells Flora that she is raising her grandchildren to be in a jazz band, which Flora finds a bit shocking but at least an organized plan. After Flora leaves, Meriam tells her mother about the advice Flora gave and how she thinks it's wickedness since it flies "in the...