This chapter opens with a soliloquy by Emma Watson, in which she compares herself to a woman who dares touch her half-haired lover's hair. Emma tells us that she is different from her lover because she is "different" in the sense that she has a different punishment for her crime. She says that her punishment to her lover is to make him "a companion" . Emma then asks if ada smith knew about her pregnancy and if she had already had an abortion on the child. Emma says that she did not know about the abortion because it was not performed according to a standardized procedure. She also says that because the pregnancy was not standardized, it resulted in an irreversible result that is "lifelong infertility". Emma then tells us about the conversations she had with a