The narrator tells us that Alice is still in love with her husband, Bard Hill, and that she's been spending more money than she earns. He tells her that he's involved in a heart-transplant and that he wants her to marry him. She's all, "I know you well, you know you. I'm dying and you're still my legal wife. Why drain your last breath, alice, and give me your heart?" She also tells him that he should marry her to the ceo of the spirit-wing group, since she knows that Bard Hill is her husband. She says that even though she doesn't know that he loves her, she still loves him. The narrator then tells us about how, when Alice was sent to Bard's bed, she was crying because she was afraid of him. He recognized her as the same face that he saw in his dreams. She was a "delicate figure" , he says, and she was "a funny woman" . He asks her what she wrote in chapter three and she says she'll stand up as an "eclectic figure" if he wants to tutor her.