In this chapter, we learn that the "ideal type" of the narrator is dying, and that she is being pursued by another man. The man is her ex-lover, and the two of them have been secretly engaged for a month. The narrator is shocked, and she tells him that he has misunderstood her. He tells her that he was entrusted with the job by his boss, who had his cousin sick and dumped by a "scumbag," and that he had taken her out to "relax." The narrator tells the man that his relationship with the woman is not like the one he has been leading, and he asks her to "calm down