The chapter opens with the narrator lamenting that he's not in love with anyone. He's busy with his job, and he'd like to spend more time with his fiancee. He tells the narrator that the man he loves is too busy for him to be with her. The narrator admits that she's jealous of the man's work, but she also says that she wants the man to do more work for her. She tells him that he needs to produce more good results for his next appraisal, and she wants to know why he was rushing so much when he first came to Japan. He says that he wants to make sure that his girlfriend thinks that he was just talking and not doing anything. He wants to establish a relationship with her so that they can be together. He asks the narrator to forgive the man for being too busy, and the narrator says that it's hard to believe that he never stopped thinking about her.