In this chapter, we learn that the woman in question is none other than Madame Bovary, the wife of the wealthy Austrian banker, and the heroine of the previous chapter. She has come to visit Bovary in order to ask him to marry her, but he refuses, saying that he is too busy with his own business affairs to pay attention to her. The woman asks Bovary if he is more handsome than her husband, and Bovary replies that although he is, he is not as handsome as her husband. He then asks her if she is too attractive for him, and she responds that she is, but she does not know how to answer such a question. She then asks him if he knows the password to his credit card, and he replies that he does not, and that he has known nothing about it for so long. She tells him that she will die if he tries to harass her. He tells her that he will not be able to escape from her, even if she tries to kill him, because he will have no other way to do so. He says that he can wait for her to leave, because she is mad,