... His potentially fatal reaction is only stopped when it is suggested that Mars' virginity be confirmed by a doctor – only for him to be told that such a test is a myth. With no way out the parents resort to their own, bloody solution. Grace scrubs her daughter's genitalia, and the next day her clothes are still coloured red. In desperation Mars attempts suicide; but, with the support of her mother, stands up to her father with the gun, with the result that life in Cider Gully will never be the same again, and the generations of women can at last find each other.