In this chapter, the narrator reflects on the fact that he has had sex with Rosa, the second virgin, and wonders if he should do it again. She tells him that he can do it as he pleases, even if it hurts, and that sex is a way to show love. She asks him if he would feel good about it, and he says that he would, if he could do it "properly or not" . He says that sometimes he wonders which of them is older, and sometimes he thinks that it is because he has more .