Before I could turn away, the elderly woman came out.

She sighed, muttering to herself as she walked:

"That poor woman kept trying to call her husband, but no one picked up. Wonder if he's dead too."

James caught her words from where he stood.

The elderly woman suddenly looked up at him: "Such a beautiful girl, what a shame. We can't let her go looking like this."

"We should make her pretty, so she can find a good man in her ...