After the battle with the wolf, the two young lovers decide to spend the night in a "snow dwelling" . They talk about how they're going to die if they don't get up and go to sleep. They're worried that they'll either freeze to death or be eaten by the wolf. They decide to talk about the mountains where they've been living, and they wonder if fate has a way of making people do stupid things. They joke about the fact that fate is destined to follow men, and that men say stupid things and mean stupid things to each other. They wonder if they are destined to be together, and if they can't be together because of the stupid things they say. They argue about whether or not they deserve each other, and whether they deserve to be in love, and then they decide to tell each other another story.