This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by the French poet Alexandre Dumas. It's a poem in which he laments the loss of his beloved wife, Lucie, who died when he was a child. He laments that his wife's death was the result of her infidelity. He also laments Lucie's absence from his life. The poem ends with a soliloquy in which the poet laments his loss. He bemoans the fact that Lucie is no longer with him, and he wishes that he had died. He wishes that Lucie had died with him.