The chapter opens with a conversation between tench and suzu. Tench wants to cut her hair and make her more beautiful with his own two hands. He tells her that he doesn't want her to lose her beauty because of her past, and that he'll do it anytime she wants him to do it. She tells him that she has plans to go out with him tomorrow and that she's already found three split ends of her hair. She asks him to come in and do her hair for her. He says that there are "a million people" who could do his hair, and he'd like to leave before he drinks too much. He asks her if she has a day off, and she says that she does, but that she starts drinking when she gets older, and suddenly she looks like a middle-aged woman. She says that since she started listening to people, she thinks she has "heart," and that it makes her feel better when she thinks of her painful past. She adds that she can understand how she feels, too, because she feels the same way. She thanks her for coming, and says that it's the last time she'll ever see her. She also says that her heart has moved to someone else, and so she wants to say that she needs someone else to get her hair done. She wants to know why she has to get there early, when someone else has been begging for it for so long, and why she hasn't been able to get anyone else to do the job