The next morning, the two of them decide to go to a forbidden city. The forbidden city, according to the narrator, is "unspeakable" because of the number of people who have died there in the cold. He tells the narrator that he has heard a rumor that the city is haunted by "the unspeakable" because many people have died inside. The narrator says that he is willing to give his youthful indulgences to the love of his life. He wants to be by his side and sing a love song slowly.