The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, where the two young lovers are in the middle of a game of hide-and-seek. The young lovers have been playing in the dark, and the narrator tells us that they have been blindfolded. The blindfold was meant to protect the young lovers from harm, but the narrator realizes that the blindfold was a punishment for the game. He tells the story of how he and the other young lovers were blindfolded, and how they had to hide in the darkness to escape punishment. The narrator then tells the tale of how they were blindfolded and how the blindfold made them afraid. He also tells us how he was afraid to tell the story to the young men because he did not want them to think that he was telling them the truth. The chapter ends with the narrator telling us that he is going to take a break from the story and come back later with a story he has not yet told.