This chapter opens with a conversation between the two men. The minister's son asks if he has seen his daughter in a while. He says that she has given up gambling with him. He tells the story of his daughter, who was exceptional in her own right, but her ambitions grew and she became anxious that she would lose her chance to learn more about the world outside. She had a fiance and her daughter did not complain against the marriage, but one day she said she would hang her neck if they forced her to marry him. The two men decide to go to Mr. Ganum's house to find out the truth about what happened the day before. They decide to use the children to chatter away and not to make any contact with anyone but to tell everyone that they met without missing anyone.