This chapter opens with a conversation between a police officer and a young woman. The young woman tells the officer that she has heard that the man who will be her husband is wealthy and that he has a pretty face. The police officer tells her that he was curious about the man's personality, and that the young woman is tolerable. He says that he decided to marry the young man because he was interested in his face and personality. He tells the woman that he will never be able to like the man, because he made the wrong decision. He feels slightly bad for kicking the stone at the scholar, but he says that the stone and he are both victims of the stone. He plans to patrol the southern part of the city that afternoon. He asks the woman if she has eaten yet, and she tells him that she did not. She asks him to go with her to eat, and he agrees to go after they eat