The narrator tells us that he's been a sex slave for three years, and that's a long time for a boy to be kept in a dorm by a savage. The narrator says he'll be leaving soon. He's leaving because he doesn't want to be associated with "human relations" , which means that he can't have sex with anyone. The cook, meanwhile, tells the narrator that his mistress is "awful," but that she's not even going to tell him about the divorce. The sex slave says that he used to be alone with