This chapter's epigraph is from the play's first chapter, "Our Age," which was written by the same author who wrote "The Girl Who Would Be King." In this chapter, we are introduced to a young woman who has just been rejected by a man she loves. The young woman tells us that the rejection is her second time in as many attempts at love, and that this time, she has been rejected completely. She feels that this rejection is the result of her age and her position in the world. She tells the young man that she is too old to be in love with him, but that he is too young to love her. He tells her that he loves her because she is his age, but she tells him that she loves him because he is her age. She says that he has rejected her twice before, and this time he has also rejected her. This time, he tells her, he has reached out to her because he wants to "spare puppy" from a painful experience. This is the first time