The narrator wakes up in the middle of the night to find that he has no work for the day. He tells his wife that he is going to go shopping, and she tells him that she will have to go to work as well. The narrator tells her that his boss, Ikezaki, is a good man, but that he hates her because she has a lot of work to do with him. The two of them discuss the fact that they are going to be living together, and the narrator suggests that they make some rules about how they will be spending their time together.