In this chapter, we meet a young man who has just returned from a trip to the "abandoned island" of Borachio. He's in love with another woman, and they're having sex out in the open. The two of them are having sex in the middle of the night, and the narrator is worried that the sex is going to be too intense for him. He tells the girl to "make love to me" and to "just make love to her" . The girl agrees, but she's worried about how she'll react if the sex doesn't work out. She's also worried about what the sex will do to her feelings for the other woman. The narrator tries to reassure her, telling her that she shouldn't worry about the sex, and that she should