The chapter opens with a conversation between a young woman and her mother. The young woman asks her mother why she doesn't spend her day off with her boyfriend. The woman replies that she's not asking her mother to do so, but rather to take her to a restaurant by herself after dropping off her mother at the hotel. She tells her mother that she can't let the young woman make any mistakes because she is her own person and she won't tolerate any of her mistakes. She also tells her that she still wants to write a letter to her son, but she knows that he only sees her as a friend, so she doesn1t want to tell him. She says that the more time she spends with him, the larger his place in her heart became. She begs him to stop treating her like a friend and to treat her as his own person.