Aunt Marthy scolds Lockwood for treating his daughter cruelly. Lockwood tells her that he would rather be an orphan than her adopted daughter. He says that if she refuses to be his daughter, he will abuse her because he is her adopted father. Lockwood says that he is not judging his aunt, but he is guiding her. He tells his aunt that he has gotten manicures and that it is painful to pull out one's fingernails. He asks her if she still wants to ask him for troubles. She says that she does, but that she would pretend that nothing has happened to her. She tells him that she has been stabbed in the hand and that she stays in her room to recover. She asks him if he still wants her to ask for troubles, and he replies that if he were her, he would leave immediately and pretend nothing had happened to him