In this chapter, the narrator tells us that his childhood friend has always looked at him this way. He says that he wants to have sex with him, but that he doesn't know how to do it yet. He tells the narrator that he's fine, and that they'll just go to bed. The narrator thanks him for coming, and tells him that the girl is sleeping in her room. He's glad that she's okay, because he was worried that she wouldn't be able to sleepwalk through the night without him. He explains that he had planned to go to see her that night, but he ran out of time. He was going to leave his company and go abroad, he says.