"The rose of the versailles" , the narrator tells us, is a famous Japanese saying that means "to drink the rose of love" . It's a way of saying, "I'm in love with you, and I'm going to love you back." The narrator says that he's been feeling a little weird lately. He's not sure what's going on. He wants to go to a restaurant with his friends, but he doesn't know what to do with himself. The narrator asks if they're having a "lovers' quarrel," and the two of them agree that it's just a "huff lunch." They don't seem to want to talk about the lovers' quarrel, but the narrator says he'll go anyway. He tells us that the narrator is afraid to go back to the nunnery because she's afraid of what the nuns will think of her. He says that the nuns are like men, and that politicians are like women. He also says that even though he is a girl, he was raised by her father as a boy. So he raised her as a man. He raised her like a man, he says, even though she was a girl. She says that she has a toast to amars in her chest, and there's something creepy about it. It could be the "oscars francois" of Tokyo, or it could be a "green foxtail" taunter. She's worried that she'll be seen with her brother, but she says she can't leave the