Jin could not stop staring at his wife as she wrapped his leg in a cloth and poured cool water over it. She, however, did not look at him. He finally spoke up, asking her a question in Korean.

She glanced up at him, but did not answer. She had finally done something to his face that was directly defiant, and yet she did not feel good about it. In fact, she felt awful about it as she tended to his bleeding wound. It did not seem bad, knowing how to speak English, and yet the way her husband reacted to it, it felt as if she had just murdered some close family member.

"I'm sorry." she said quietly.