 Stopping at a roadside bar to buy beers, Myron is laughed at by four youths, so he attacks them and then runs for the car.Myron has developed sympathy for Maggie and feels protective of her.Braddock himself has a confrontation with her when they are alone in which she bites his hand, drawing blood, from which he appears to derive some form of masochistic or self-penitential gratification.