The next morning, the two of them go to bed, and the narrator complains that he's been studying a lot. He's not sure if he should have been studying or not, but he does know that it's time for bed. He tells the narrator to stop talking about his love for the other woman, and to stop being so hard on himself. He says that he doesn't want anyone to find out that he was late for bed, because no one would ever think it was late. The narrator says that if he did that, then anyone could touch him, and that's what makes him twitch. He asks the narrator why he was so hard, and he says