The chapter opens with a conversation between the two women. The first woman, Madame Bo, asks the second woman, Guizhou, if she would like to eat with him. The woman, who has just returned from a trip to the Galapagos, says that she would never forgive Guizhou if he really did betray her. She says that he does not have a choice but to do what he has to do because he is a capitalist. She adds that if a man wanted to cheat he would have a thousand excuses, but an idiot would not believe them. The second woman asks the first woman if she is still hungry, and the woman replies that she is. She tells the woman that if she does not leave now, she will not be able to promise that they will be good sisters again in the future, and that she did not think a high class man like Guizhou would have so low standards. She asks the woman why he had to make things so difficult for her, and he replies that he