The chapter opens with the narrator describing her trip to Osaka with morton. She and morton are staying in different hotels, but she wonders if they will be able to find a place to stay. She buys a lace bra to wear on the train so she won't have to worry about her feelings. She compares her feelings to her feelings for morton, who seems so confident in his new confidence. She tells the narrator that she can see how his "triangle of groupies" sees in him. She also tells him that she has found a hotel nearby, but it's a no-go. She asks the innkeeper if he can arrange a room for them. The innkeeper tells her that he has a client who owns an inn nearby, and the two of them go to check it out. They stay in a room with two other people. The narrator tells the innkeeper that he must have been thinking that he was "rooming" with a "male co-worker" , but the innkeeper denies it. He says that he's just giving her a room because he wants to give it to her. He also says that the mood in the inn is "too much souvenir shop" . He asks her why she's giving him the room, and she says that she wants it for herself. She then asks him if he'd like it for her, and he says he would, but that he would have it for someone else. He then asks her if she would like it if it were just one fine thing, or if it was a fine thing for her. She says she doesn't think so, and then asks if she can have it either way. He tells her she can either have it fine or it could be either one fine. She finally asks if he would like to have it, but he says it would be better if she gave it to him. He goes on to say that he is going to check out a hotel over there, and that it is almost