The narrator asks the young man why he agreed with the chief without hesitation. The young man tells the narrator that he doesn't want the ceremony to be under the pressure of the village chief. The narrator says that it's a bit of a pleasure to be his partner in marriage, and that he's happy to hear that. The village chief has ordered the couple to have the wedding with him to "whiten" the young men's jokes, the narrator says. He says that he didn't really think about those things, but now that the ceremony stuff has been mentioned, he has become "unusually romantic"