In this chapter, we learn that the two of them have fallen in love, and that they're going to get married in a few short months. The narrator tells us that he's not sure if he'll be able to get tenure in the future because he hasn't had much success in building intimacy. He's been watching a lot of romance novels lately, and he'd like to know where he went wrong. He wants to know if the narrator can tell him where she went wrong, and if she'll change her ways. He asks if she has compassion for him, and she tells him that she does, too. She says that she's a rotten girl, but she also likes romantic relationships between men and boys, and girls and girls as well. She tells the narrator that she loves being a "pans fan" , which basically means that she wants to be with a boy and a girl, just like her mother and her father do. She also says that the way she likes to date men is that they are brothers, and not just "brothers" like a mother and a father. She wants to marry him, she says, because she wants him to be happy, too, after all. She doesn't want to interfere with her preferences, though, because they'll make her happy.