This chapter opens with a soliloquy by a young woman who has just arrived in Shanghai. She tells us that she is a "good girl" because she is kind to people who are "harsh on people" who do not expect things from them. She says that she hopes that she will be able to help her friend, china, because she thinks that he is a good man. The young woman tells the boy that she wants to help him understand something and that he can stay at the club with her if he wants. The boy says that he was annoyed that she did not want him to stay with her, but that it was not because she was rude to him. The girl says that even though she has been in Shanghai for a week, she is still trying to learn how to use the washing machine. She asks the boy if he is okay, and he says he is. He tells her that he has cleaned up some of the parts of the machine that she can't use and that she should