In this chapter, we learn that the sadist's training plan does not include the possibility of a sexual encounter between the two lovers. When the narrator asks why the two are having such an encounter, he is told that it is because they still love each other and that they are in love with each other. He also learns that they have begun to date and that he has told her that she should become his "ideal sadist" . The narrator then tells us that he is not sadist, but that he does have the "disposition" for it.