In this chapter, we learn that Elmire has been having sex with her husband every day. Elmire tells us that at a drinking party, Elmire asked her husband how he came to know her, and he refused to tell her anything. She invited him to come drink alone with her and get him drunk, and Elmire told him that she was working as a hostess at a bar where Elmire and her husband had met. She tells Elmire that she had moved to Elmire's new home because Elmire trusts her and that he had opened up to her. She asks Elmire not to tell anyone about their past, but to keep it a secret too. She says that if Elmire does wake up, she will tell him everything she knows about her and her new husband.