When the narrator arrives at the university, he finds that it is late. He asks the senior why he is late, and the senior tells him that he has been waiting for him. The narrator is surprised to find that the two men have bumped into one another while they were walking to work. The two men are interrupted by the sound of a heart rate monitor, which the narrator has forgotten to remove from the senior's watch. He tells the senior that he cannot trust the alarm clock that the senior sets, as it is the same alarm clock the last time he set it. The senior tells the narrator that he is afraid that if the woman knows everything about the watch, it will be too dangerous for her to wear it again