The chapter opens with the narrator's soliloquy, in which he laments the fact that he is unable to have sex with anyone other than his "pre-cious boy friend" . The narrator asks the reader to imagine what it must be like to be in love with someone else. He imagines that he, the narrator, is in the middle of a sexual encounter with another man, and that the other man is afraid of what will happen to him if he is found out. He also imagines what it would be like if he were to be found out, and he wonders if it is better for him to be alone with someone than to have his lover see the sexual encounter. He then imagines how it would feel to be caught in the act of having sex with someone he does not know, and how he would react if he found out that his lover was not his lover. He thinks that it is best to have the other person see the encounter, even if it meant that the two of them were having sex outside of the relationship. He feels that it would make the encounter more pleasurable if the other party members were also present, and so he decides to have them watch the encounter. The two men enter the room, and the narrator tells the audience that he and his lover are about to be married. He asks the audience to imagine that they are getting married again, and to imagine how it must feel to gasp for the first time, and then to feel sorry for the man who is about to get married. The audience imagines the two men having sex again, but this time, instead of being caught in a sexual act, they are having sex in a public place.