In this chapter, the young narrator tries to convince the reader that she is not a virgin and that she has never been in love. She tells him that even though she has been abroad for a year, she has not yet asked anyone to marry her because she is busy with her studies and she does not have the time to do so. She also tells the audience that even if a person is in love with another person in another country, that person is not necessarily a lover of the narrator. The narrator is not lying, she tells the reader. She says that even in foreign countries, there are differences between lovers and non-lovers. She adds that she herself has not had a romantic relationship, but that she wants to be alone with the man she loves.