The chapter opens with a soliloquy by a young woman named Alintie, who has just returned from a trip to Europe. She tells the young man that she has come to see him, and she asks him to take her out for a walk. The young man, however, refuses, saying that he has come only to see her. She asks him why he has taken her out so often, and he tells her that his wife, a zheng, is still abroad, waiting for her return
The chapter opens with a soliloquy by a young woman named Alintie, who has just returned from a trip to Europe. She tells the young man that she has come to see him, and she asks him to take her out for a walk. The young man, however, refuses, saying that he has come only to see her. She asks him why he has taken her out so often, and he tells her that his wife, a zheng, is still abroad, waiting for her return