Chapter 7 Summary

While Caridad was missing, dona Felicia was forced to rent out her trailer, but let her compassion get the better of her when she chose a young pregnant couple that her better judgment told her could not pay. Soon, the rest of the couple's family moved in, along with a frighteningly mean dog and after a while, the rent, dwindling from month to month, stopped coming at all. One night, they all disappeared, along with Caridad's things.

Dona Felicia, convinced they will come back for more because they got away with it the first time, has been sitting up at night with her gun—that has not been fired since 1910. When she hears soft footsteps outside, she goes to Caridad's trailer. However, it is Caridad herself, who cannot explain why she disappeared, to dona Felicia or to her parents. Her...