In this chapter, we learn that the narrator's first love shattered her faith in love, and that her mother's second marriage made her question marriage itself. The narrator tells us that marriage is a choice, but that she does not have to take it seriously. She has a good job and a nice salary, and she has managed to move her mother to live in a city. She tells the narrator that he must have mistaken her for someone else, because she only drinks red wine and plays the piano. He tells her that he has gotten tired of "old types" and that he will "drink a shot" as punishment. He asks her if she will "take responsibility for me," and she tells him that this is the "first time she felt that love was truly magnificent"