This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It's a quote from the play's opening lines: "blood - drinking boss" . In other words, this chapter is about drinking the blood of a boss. The scene opens with a soliloquy from Shakespeare, in which he tells the audience that if you are sad, you should "ask ye chu" to come back. This is a reference to the fact that Corinna has been staying with the Mingus family for a month. She's staying with them because she wants to spend her life with him. The Mingus have been taking care of her since she was a child, and she's not going to leave them. She wants to stay with him forever. She doesn't even want to marry him. She just wants to be with him for the rest of his life. She tells him that her mother is out of town, so she'll be back in a few days. She asks him to write a recommendation letter for her to return to Mingus, and he