When after the chess match the white Queen-No.8 follows Number 6, and catches up with him. She asks him when he's going to escape, because everyone plans to escape when their spirits broken. If Number 6 tells her his plan then she'll help him with it, because she likes him. If it's a good plan she'll escape with him. She has often helped with other people's plans. But No.8's still in the Village, that's because none of them ever succeeded. That must be more than a coincidence! So I think we can take it that this woman, in some form or other, has been used before against those who have planned to escape the Village. She is obviously not a woman to be trusted, and already No.6 is wise to her. But then he doesn't trust anybody.
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