The chapter opens with a conversation between a young woman named Sofia and a young man named Nicola. The young woman tells Nicola that she has just moved in with her new roommate, who is named Veronica, and that she is very excited to be living with her. When the young man asks her why she has come to see him, she tells him that she wants to talk to him alone. When he asks her where she has gone, she says that it is not like she has left the house, but that she stopped picking up the phone when she saw that Nicola was not there. When she asks him what happened, he tells her that he was worried about her and that he had a feeling that something bad was going to happen between him and Veronica the night before. She asks him if he has seen the look on her face before, and he says that he has never seen it before.