Months past, but each day the father remembered the beauty of his two daughters and felt hope that someday he would see them again. One day, the son of a former business associate came to see him. He offered to pay off the father's debts and provide him with a better lawyer. His only condition was that he would send one of his daughters to marry him. The father agreed and sent word to his ex-wife. She had grown tired of tormenting her nieces, and because she saw a photo revealing that the suitor was hideously fat and had terrible acne scarring his face, she decided to send Bella to marry the young man. Meanwhile, she forced Aurora to do all the chores the girls had previously shared.