The next day, shortly after 7 p.m., Heriberto Quintales took Antonio Lombardo to the boarding house where the young widow Flor Lins and her young son Alberto lived. He introduced them and told her that he, too, would help her find a job. The young Asian mother accepted the Italian man's help and couldn't deny that she felt flattered by so many gestures of goodwill and the kind words of both young people.