The chapter opens with a soliloquy by Desdemona, in which she laments the loss of her husband. She laments her husband's decision to take his wife away so soon after their marriage. She also laments that she has not been able to show her children how to grow up. She wonders if she will ever be able to visit her children again, and wonders what she will have for dinner that night. She is also concerned about her children's future, and worries that she will not have enough money to provide for them