The scene opens with Hiroshi talking to kawanaka, who has just returned from the party. Hiroshi asks if he can leave the rest of the party to matsueda. . , who is still in the hotel, asks if she would like to join him later that night. She says that she needs time to prepare herself for the situation, and Hiroshi tells her that he will meet her at the hotel. Worried that he is serious, she asks him if he wants to elope with her. He says that he does, and she agrees to meet him after this. She tells him that she has a day off from work, so she has been washing her clothes and eating breakfast. She asks him what happened, and he says that naka told him that he had a chance with her, and that Hiroshi was aiming for her the whole time. She wonders if he is concerned about her, because if she slept with another man, that would hurt her pride.