 When the servant screams in protest, al-Sayyid Ahmad investigates and discovers Yasin, and furiously drags him away.As a result of Yasin's behavior, al-Sayyid Ahmad decides to marry him off to the daughter of an old friend, in hopes of finding an appropriate sexual outlet for him and keeping him from further trouble.Later in the book, following the November Armistice which ended World War I, political unrest begins to surface in the novel.