The next morning, the narrator wakes up to find that the kitchen has been completely taken over by the servant, who is making delicious food for his wife. The narrator is so excited that he kisses his wife, but she is still asleep. She wakes him up by saying that she has a dream about him and that she wants to do something to make him feel better. He asks her if the dream is real, and she says that it is. She asks him if he had a dream while he was gone, and he says that he had one. She tells him that the note was put in his pocket when he was not paying attention to it. She begs him not to go back to his house, but he tells her to shut her dreams.