 Olga, a vicious old gossip, goes to visit Mana Ana and Mana Aurora with the hope of cadging lunch. The sisters criticize her husband in every way imaginable, recalling the time he got drunk and climbed the church s clock tower, under the belief he was a cuckoo. After they get Olga to agree she should leave him, Olga s daughter arrives. The sisters criticize the girl s indecent attire, then tell her of her mother s admission that she wants to leave the girl s father, her husband of thirty years. The mother s protests are drowned out by the sisters  soothing reassurances that she needed to let it out. Mother and daughter finally retreat, defeated and unfed, and the sisters compare Olga s stone heart to their own compassionate natures.