The narrator asks his wife if she is happy with her present. She replies that she is. The narrator then asks her how she felt when she first received her husband's gift. He tells her that he is a good husband and that his wife is as proud as him. He says that his husband is "too perstent" and that he feels a "slight jolt" whenever he touches her. She responds by saying that she does not feel this way and that she cannot turn him down.