This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "Poem in the Prairie." In this poem, Edgar explains that he is being punished by the two constellations, Gemini and Nereus, because they have forbidden him to see his true love, the Duchess of Cambridge, as often as he desires. He explains that his sin will be that he will be able to relax and content when he returns to the Duchess's house, but that he has no intention of returning just yet.