It's the middle of the night, and the narrator is walking home from work. He's worried about what's going to happen to her, but he doesn't want to be a "lovesick girl" , so he tells her to "mark your okay" . He tells her that he'll be back soon, and she's all, "okay, fine, I'm going to be right down." She tells him that her husband is waiting downstairs for her, and that the rest of her work is in his hands . The narrator is so excited to be home that she starts to freak out, but then she realizes that it's only half an hour until she'll have dinner with her new husband. She's so excited that she can hardly wait to get home. She wonders why she hasn't heard from her husband yet , and then she wonders why he's been beating her so hard at work. She can't believe that his wife is beating him so hard. She also wonders if she can trust her husband, because he seems to be honest with her