 The young man reveals that he was her husband and the old man her father, who was attempting to save his son-in-law by taking the blame.Harun then demands to know his motives for murdering his wife, and the young man then narrates his reasons as a flashback of events preceding Harun's discovery of the locked chest.He eulogizes her as a faultless wife and mother of his three children, and describes how she one day requested a rare apple when she was ill.