The chapter opens with the narrator wiping his face with a wet cloth. He tells the audience that he is a pig, and that his father has forbidden him to tell anyone who he is. The narrator tells his father that he has a bodyguard who will protect him for twenty-four hours a day, but he does not have the money to do so. He also tells the narrator that the news of his father's marriage was released by a magazine, and he is afraid that he will be in danger if he is found out. He asks the narrator if he has forgiven him, and the narrator tells him that he did not love him as much as he loved his father. He says that he had thought about the person who had released the news, but that his uncle should have done something about it, since he was the one who did not do anything about it. He then tells the father that his daughter has married a man and that she has not told him about it