A lavish metaphor at the end of the chapter describes Tom beating the rug so hard that the dust rises up to meet him, another surrealistic chapter ending possibly a reference to the Judeo-Christian belief that man was created from dust. Chapters 15--16 (Season of Disbelief) -- Mrs. Bentley, a 72-year-old woman who saves all memorabilia from her past, finds her beliefs challenged by two girls named Alice and Jane, who meet _her_ along with Tom and don't believe her when she says that she was young like them once. <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Alice <sep>, B: Jane