Hannah is in so much pain that she doesn't see Eva next to her and she runs to the neighbors, Mr.

Eva tries to land on Hannah, but she misses her and ' crashing down some twelve feet from Hannah's smoke' (1923.41).

In a split second, Eva decides to jump out of her top floor window (it would take her too long to get downstairs with her one good leg) and throw herself on her daughter to put the fire out.

When she finally finds it, she looks outside and sees that Hannah has caught on fire.

She can't find her comb anywhere, which is strange because, 'Nobody moved stuff in Eva's room except to clean and then they put everything right back' (1923.41). As she's looking for it, she sees 'Hannah bending to light the yard fire' (1923.41).

The next strange event happens when Eva tries to find her comb.

She starts bothering the Deweys and taking food from the newlyweds who live in the house.

The birthmark on her face is 'getting darker and looked more and more like a stem and rose' (1923.37).

Then they forget about the dream when Sula starts 'acting up' (1923.37). Both women know that this means the number will be 522 (they play the numbers in the Bottom).

A few days later, Hannah tells Eva about a dream she had 'of wedding in red dress' (1923.37).

Eva starts to cry as she relates all this to Hannah, and she makes sure to tell Hannah that she 'held him close first.

So she killed him so 'he die like a man not all scrunched up in womb, but like a man' (1923.31). She tells Hannah that she just couldn't imagine giving birth to him again, no matter how badly he wanted to return to the womb.

When he came home from the war, Eva had the feeling that 'he want to crawl back in womb' (1923.31).

She tells Hannah how difficult his birth was, that it seemed like he didn't want to come out.

Hannah wants to know why, and Eva's explanation is a little hard to follow.

Then Hannah finally asks Eva about Plum's death, and we learn that Eva did in fact kill him.Eva gets more and more angry as she remembers how hard her life was and how sick her kids were: 'What you talkin' 'bout did I love you girl I stayed alive for you' (1923.25). She wants to know if Eva ever played with them, if they ever shared any tender and happy family moments. But this is not the love Hannah is really asking about.Feeling that she has to explain herself, she reminds Hannah that she fed and clothed the kids, watching over them to make sure they didn't get tuberculosis, and that people were dying all around them back in 1895 when they were still kids. Hannah seems willing to move on, but the question infuriates Eva. Eva thinks for a moment and replies, 'No.This chapter features a series of 'strange things.' Hannah goes into Eva's room and asks, 'Mamma, did you ever love us?' (1923.

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