This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the famous poet and poetess Madame Bovary. It is a poem in which Bovary laments the loss of her beloved daughter, who was taken away from her by her lover, the poet, in order to protect her from the evil spirit of the east. The poem is about a woman who has been taken away by a lover, and the poem is meant to be a warning to the lover of the woman's fate. In the poem, she warns the lover that if he does not return her to her, she will kill herself. In this passage, she also warns him that if the lover is not returned, he will die.