In this chapter, we learn that the narrator is in love with a girl. He's planning to marry her, but he's not sure how to go about it. He tells himself that he'll have to wait until she's back in town before he can do anything. He also tells us that a handsome man has come looking for him, and he'd like to meet him. The narrator is worried that the man is going to run off with someone else, but the man assures him that it's all a joke, and the narrator doesn't want to lose him.