The whitefox chief asks if the princess is trusting her to keep this a secret. The princess is not frightened, he says, since she is "at the mercy" of others and lacks "resurrection" . He tells the commander that he is feeling lonely and is trying to find "comfort in the arms" of a beautiful woman. He warns him not to throw his poison pills around anymore, he is afraid that the princess will "pick it up" and "lose her life" because she does not know how to make poison