The chapter opens with a soliloquy by the narrator, in which he tells us that he loves his heroine. He tells her that she is the one who has been falsely accused of having sex with a man of her own class, and that she was also at fault for the whole thing. The narrator then tells the audience that he was raised by his single parent, who was very careless with her children. He says that he feels relieved that his mother was right about him, because now that he's grown up, he doesn't need anyone to take seriously. He wants to know how she can be so "non-chalant" when she's been working late all the time. He asks her if she has a problem with the man, and she says that she does. He then asks her to walk him home, and the two of them go out for a walk.