There is a disturbing event in the house as Chandan Singh destroys hundreds of ants near the kitchen door. Priya Nath thinks it is a great sin and that all in the house will have to suffer for it. He considers it inauspicious. Shri Nathji, too, is perturbed and loathe to eat food made at the hands of Chandan Singh.“Maarnaa mat!”Chandan Singh had found a hole near the kitchen door through which ants came into the kitchen and he had poured the disinfectant Phenyl into the hole. This had caused the ants to come pouring out from it in swarms, and, thereafter, Chandan Singh had destroyed them.