In this chapter, the young narrator asks Paris to tell him everything he knows about love. He also wants to kiss her. He wants to know when she first kissed him, and he wants to hear the word "love" from Paris. He tells Paris to keep his voice down so that she can't hear it, but he's really curious about the kiss. He says that if he had known, she wouldn't have kissed him. He blames the kiss on some "madhe" show of use on Paris's part. Paris asks him to take a nap, and Paris tells him that he looks just like the man in the picture. Paris tells Paris that he'll let his hair grow longer, but if he wants love, that's fine. Paris says that he doesn't hate his brother, but that he just wants to read more books. He's okay with being his brother's replacement, he says, after all, he can stay with Paris for "hundreds of years" .