The chapter opens with a conversation between the narrator and his aunt. The aunt asks the narrator to introduce her to her brother, who is a student at the university. She also asks him if he knows any girls who might be suitable for her brother. The narrator tells her that he went to a company dinner party at which he was introduced to a woman who was about the age of his mother. She asks him about his studies and asks him to write a list of romance novels for her daughter. He says that his daughter only reads romantic novels, where the women only know what to do in love. The conversation turns to novels, and the aunt tells him that her daughter used to read romance novels when she was in college. She says that the dorm captain used to rent romance novels from the human text library, which was located near every school. The dorm captain also used to recommend books with "stubborn leads," which the narrator does not understand. He tells the aunt that he is going to write his own novel, and he invites her to a big dinner to show her support. When the aunt asks why he is not going to sleep, the narrator says that he will get up early the next morning to write. He explains that the girl slept until noon, but her mother caught wind of the trick and told everyone that his sister is a writer. The chapter ends with the narrator telling his aunt that she ate until her stomach was full, and then went to sleep.