The chapter opens with the narrator lamenting that he has not seen his student's hand at the movies lately. He is worried that he will not be able to use the student discount at the theater. He asks the other students if they are okay, and they all say that they are. The narrator then asks the teacher if she is feeling better, and the teacher says that she is. The teacher then asks if the student will stay for the class since it is not a tanizaki class, as the teacher had told her, but the student says she will stay.